Word: strainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oddity, a Greek owned restaurant which actually serves Greek food, paid decided dividends for the Athens-Olympia and its owner, John Cocoris. Greek cooking needs to be explained. Yaourti, for example, a Balkan food staple, is made by boiling ordinary milk, then cooling it, and running it through a strainer. It comes out thick, and white, and very sour; and some people who are not from the Balkans have trouble stomaching it. Baklava, a doughy kind of pastry, makes its appearance in layered squares covered with syrup. It is as extremely sweet at the other is sour...
...kitchen ("Costs no more than a good six-room house") are a 105-mm. twin-spout faucet, jutting formidably from a revolving turret in the center of the kitchen; and a glistening floor which is at once a swimming pool, ice rink, washing machine, merry-go-round and giant strainer. (Schaible's chief products: faucets and strainers.) Other wonders...
...automatic device which fills strainer floor with water to depths of two feet for wading children, to seven feet for swimming adults. "If you must show off still further, go ahead and turn on Hollywood electrical aquatic display, in color. Warning: with swimmers in pool, for goodness sake watch out for button that operates automatic disposal...
There was a Dutch cap made of a kitchen towel, trimmed with four napkin rings, a cookie cutter and a tea strainer. There was a tricorn glittering with plastic cutlery, grapefruit knives and ice tongs, and a hat of a sponge pierced with iced-tea spoons. The queer fact about these hats was that they were all becoming. Ben says: "The sale is made in the mirror...
...anesthetic cone, Lipes used a tea strainer through which the patient breathed ether; for the incision, a broken-handled scalpel from the ship's medicine chest; for antiseptic, alcohol drained from torpedoes; for muscle retractors (to hold the incision open), bent tablespoons. Oversize rubber gloves encumbered Lipes. After cutting through layers of muscle, he took 20 minutes to find the appendix. "I think I've got it," Lipes finally whispered. "It's curled around the blind gut. . . . More flashlights, another battle lantern...