Word: stew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summer maneuvers to remain on stand-by call. Doctors, fearing the worst, have called for increased ambulance service and emergency supplies of drugs, cots, chairs, tables, tents, huts, trailers and walkie-talkies. One survival-minded citizens' group, The Miami Snowplow Co., requested $1.7 million worth of canned beef stew, a $1,632 stockpile of disposable diapers and bottles, 1,000 containers of aspirin, 500 instant ice packs and one medium-transport helicopter-but failed to survive as an organization through lack of support. The scene is Miami Beach, and the preparations are not for a hurricane but for those...
...refused to buy them from a company going out of business. "But I fooled them! I still have them in my room. Next time you come over you can see them. How about tomorrow: there's a good flick on the telly and I can make us some lamb stew with my leftovers--very nourishing...
Camera crews went on official side trips to communes and factories, and visited an army base. CBS's Dan Rather ventured into a Peking short-order shop where he found, to no one's great surprise, Chinese eating such things as pork stew and noodles. Trying to pick up any scrap of news, everybody followed every move Mrs. Nixon made. NBC's Barbara Walters, one of three women included in the press group, hovered so close to the First Lady that other members of the press contingent nicknamed her "No. 2." Mrs. Nixon, in fact, should...
...bowl, he tasted the other. Not bad--there was some fish in it...He dug in. First he only drank the broth, drank and drank. As it went down filling his whole body with warmth, all his guts began to flutter inside him at their meeting with the stew. Goo--ood!" It is explicit that Ivan is locked into a fate from which he cannot return home. "No one ever left the camps alive." His day evokes more a feeling of melancholy than horror because the situation is so hopeless...
While Con Ed's research indicates that its first plant has caused "biologically insignificant" damage to date, the company has actually had to shut it down on occasion to clean water intake pipes clogged with fish stew. To scare fish away from the pipes, Con Ed has unsuccessfully tried electric screens, night lights and noisemakers. What would satisfy critics of the plant is for the company to find a way not to use Hudson River water at all. But Con Ed says such a solution-if possible-would be prohibitively expensive...