Word: tomatoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expanded and dilated," Whittaker explained obligingly. "Yang is constricted and solid, Yin is purple; yang is red. Yin is cold; yang is hot. Yin grows up; yang grows down. Which do you think is more yin, a tomato or a carrot...
...tomato," we said, "because it's higher off the ground...
...their commuter trains in a below-zero blast off Lake Michigan. From South Carolina to Northern California, flowerbeds were bare, ruined choirs, strawberry patches frozen stiff as a Birds Eye package. But beside a million open fires and upturned thermostats roses bloomed, shrubs sprang into leaf, fruit trees and tomato vines burgeoned with succulence. It is Catalogue Time...
...have eaten so well. As a table fish, the steelhead offers the best of both its worlds: its flesh has the pink color and high fat content of a saltwater salmon, the delicacy and firmness of a fresh-water trout. Stuffed with onion, lined with bacon strips, drenched in tomato sauce, wrapped in foil and roasted over an open fire, the steelie is enough to make a gourmand out of a gourmet. But it is the sport, not the stomach, that makes a steelhead fisherman. Snorts one oldtimer: "Catching a steelhead for food is like visiting the Louvre...
What next? Goodbye Foxes. Last week Cassius was in Boston training for his Nov. 16 rematch with ex-Champion Sonny Liston. The tomato-red Caddy was gone, replaced by a block-long black limousine and a Muslim chauffeur who wore a fuzzy fur hat. Gone, too, were the foxes-Clay is a married man now-and most of the 25 extra pounds he had put on this summer. This time Cassius was every inch the grownup pro prizefighter, determined to prove that what happened last time was no mistake. A rock-hard 215 Ibs. ("I'll be down...