Word: stewing
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...political pot was bubbling briskly in the House, and the aroma of a rich fiscal stew flared jaded old nostrils on both sides of the aisle. The basic ingredient was the Administration's record peacetime $71.8 billion budget, which is, in many domestic respects, a Fair Dealer's dream, e.g., burgeoning appropriations for agriculture, expenses for school construction, outlays for welfare projects. Old-fashioned Republicans criticized it as a Fair Deal budget, but the President left it up to the Democrat-controlled Congress to trim as it might. Entering into the spirit of the thing, House Democrats made...
...STRAIGHT AND NARROW PATH, by Honor Tracy. Probably the year's funniest novel, a fine Irish stew of a farce in which a visiting Englishman takes on not only the Irish clergy but Ireland as well, in a contest of face saving and legpulling...
Princeton also boasts a strong team headed by Pete Kingston, who defeated the entire Princeton varsity with the exception of ace Ron Zwirner, in a practice meet. Backing up Kingston are Stew White and Ted Johnson...
...week's TV heroines were mostly vintage Hollywood. On Robert Montgomery Presents (NBC) durable Cinemactress Constance Bennett sashayed nasally through a shrill domestic comedy called Onions in the Stew. Audrey Trotter was a voluptuous nuclear scientist in The Garsten Case on CBS's Climax! Blonde Virginia Bruce was dragged mercilessly through a bleak, attenuated version of Mildred Pierce on NBC's Lux Video Theater. The week's best drama, We Who Love Her, had Alexis Smith recover sufficiently from kleptomania to adopt her six-year-old orphaned niece on NBC's On Trial! Oscar-Winner...
...Simpson. From the moment of Wallis' fateful speech to the Prince at the Simpsons' flat in Bryanston Court-"Sir, would you care to take pot-luck with us?"-Mr. Simpson recedes into vagueness. The Prince returned for more and more of Wallis' beef stew-she used a recipe from Fannie Farmer's Boston Cooking-School Cook Book. Came the day when she simply could not refuse the Prince's invitation to ski at Kitzbühl. That evening for the first time she heard her husband's "door bang." Later he went...