Word: stewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What's Cooking? Wiry, nervous Lutes works at a white-hot pace, never stops. On his last trip to England he found himself one day with every single job done. Characteristically, with the heat left over he cooked up a sizable stew of new ideas, handed them to his aides, cracked: "It isn't good for me to be idle for a day. I think up too many things for other people...
...today my friends captured a Todt organization headquarters and found cognac and wine. So for lunch there were shell eggs (opposite: dried) and cognac with a stew compounded of vegetables and D rations, alt this sitting in an apple orchard in full bloom. It would be lovely if you could ignore the shelling, the dirt, the burning fatigue...
...Lyon. He retired to his hilltop house in the upper Rhone Valley. In 1942's summer a visitor, Rightest Deputy C.J. Fernand-Laurent found him there, dressed in sweater and cap, smoking his pipe, culling mushrooms in his garden, sighing gently over a thin rabbit stew and the last of his wine. One thing made Edouard Herriot openly indignant: Vichy had sent a policeman to take note of his visitors, remarks, gestures-"even in the bathroom. . . . Now, wasn't that dishonorable...
...days so far. The first 500 were the hardest; they are now increasingly pleasant." The meals, the weather, the prisoners' health, the social life, reported Halsema, were all pretty dandy. "Camp food is exotic," he wrote, "and we're used to it: rice, all you can eat, stew with some meat, native vegetables, occasional tropical fruit." For fun, said Halsema, there was always bridge, poker, pinochle, chess, handicrafts, and a weekly entertainment. "Fortunately there is plenty of work. . . . Work is satisfying. . . . There's a big crew on the hill . . . getting out firewood for the stoves, good healthy...
...Such were the churning waters from which the U.S. State Department was trying to pull an acceptable fish. But much of the Department's energy was spent in squabbling over what sort of fish it wanted and what to use for bait. Caught unawares and still in a stew, the Department showed clearly that it had no unified policy, that it was hardly more than a maze of corridors full of warring tribes. Washington newsmen heard that the Department looked to the PIR to set matters aright; that the PIR was nothing but a Soviet tool, and therefore suspect...