Word: tablespoonful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bandit-beating is not the simple business it once was. In the early days of the slots, the process was called "spooning," and it had nothing whatever to do with June or moon. A spooner would simply slip the handle of a tablespoon into the coin-return opening, wedge open the little trap door, insert his coin in the slot, and pull the lever. Down through the trap door would fall the take. One imaginative cheater was caught using a fine homemade machine tool with detachable heads, one each for nickel, dime, quarter, half-dollar and dollar slots...
...chieftains' bidding, 215,504 men, women and children trooped down to rally points where the doctors were waiting with jugs of ice-cold Chat. In some cases, team members squirted the virus-containing liquid into the tribesmen's mouths; usually, they let them take it from a tablespoon. There were no ill effects, and team members have high hopes that they averted a lot of polio...
...Take me, for example. I wish I had a cross, just one cross, to bear. I was a little boy when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and when it was done and peace declared, I marched down Main Street banging on a pan with a tablespoon. I was taught in tickertape parades...
...serving take two dressed quail, simmer in one pint of chicken broth for 15 minutes; remove birds from broth and pluck meat from bones, returning the meat (finely chopped) to broth until cooked; thicken with one tablespoon of flour, season to taste and serve on toast points or with hominy grits. (The President prefers grits...
Virgin Sauce. For 1 person, place 5 tablespoons butter in a hot bowl, add ¼ teaspoon salt, beat with a whisk until the butter foams, put it over hot but not boiling water for an instant. The butter must not melt. When the butter foams, add drop by drop, never ceasing to whisk, 1 teaspoon lemon juice and 1 tablespoon tepid water. When they are well amalgamated with the foaming butter, add 1 tablespoon whipped cream and serve at once. This sauce is delicious with cold fish. It is something apart...