Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...toward a future mortgage loan of up to $18,000, then waits an average of three years to get it, at 12% to 14% interest (current mortgage rates in the U.S.: about 6%). Since the wait is pretty discouraging, the societies have tried to help a few, and stir up the curiosity of all, by means of a lottery...
...public attention to the soup stains on the old school tie is 24-year-old David Benedictus. Brought out in England last June to coincide with the date of the school's fanciest annual party (from which it takes its title), the book caused a small but predictable stir. Liberal reviewers used it to launch an impassioned appeal for school reform. Conservative critics, many of them older Etonians than the author, shrilly denounced him for sensationalism. They were offended by an incident in which a student sells his handsome younger brother to the rowing eight, and objected to Benedictus...
...enough. Irma Rombauer had sampled some of the pleasures of European cooking when her father served for several years as American consul in Bremen. In those turn-of-the-century days, directions for more exotic dishes were almost always in French, and began: "Make a white sauce, stir until ready." Or: "Simmer your leftover grouse for 36 hours and season to taste with duxelles." Irma Rombauer had no idea how to make a white sauce or what duxelles was-even her young lawyer husband, a longtime camper, could cook better than she could-but she set out to find...
With sly, leisurely humor, Novelist Amado records the stir made in Ilhéus as the fitful-sometimes barely perceptible -winds of progress blow. There is nothing that is not affected by modernism. Everyone is full of admiration when Colonel Jesuino Mendonga, after discovering his wife and his dentist in conversation (he in the nude, she wearing only a pair of long black stockings), shoots both of them. The colonel's conduct was impeccable under the ancient code for settling marital differences, and even liberals in Ilhéus are shocked when a court finds him guilty and sentences...
...Gabriela's husband? Naturally he is fat Nacib, the saloonkeeper. Who crawls in Nacib's window when Nacib is tending bar? No one but oily Tonico, the seducer. Will Tonico succeed in getting back out when Nacib comes home unexpectedly? Ah, now there is a question to stir discussion in Ilhéus, just as it has fascinated readers in its countless variants across the centuries...