Word: tomatos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there in dumb terror, trying ineffectually to wipe vodka and tomato juice off my pants with an airsickness bag, the plane executed a series of dives and rolls that would have been difficult in a fighter plane, let alone a DC-10. To my great displeasure, I found my sentiments echoed loudly by a two-year old in the seat behind me, who let loose a bloodcurdling screech with every undulation of the plane. Eventually, the head steward clawed his way to the intercom and coughed to get our attention. I halfway expected him to begin showing...
Fans carrying containers of purportedly non-alcoholic beverages like orange juice, tomato juice, or cranberry juice, will enter through specially designated "package gates." Officials will search each picnic basket and thermos, dumping any alcoholic contents, says the athletic official. However, he adds, "It sure is hard to check Irish Coffee...
Then you find a centrex phone and make some frantic calls. You finally find the party. You hurry over to the House only to find five strangers desperately trying to have fun on tomato juice and Perrier. Someone breaks out the computer games. You don't wake...
...turn out pasta and homemade breads twice a day, as well as thin, crackling raspberry and orange tarts. Sooner or later all try their hand at the subtle and restrained garnishes created by Robuchon. He tends to favor a pointillist shimmer of color, sometimes achieved with tiny droplets of tomato sauce dotted from a knife point to rim a sauce of grass-green pureed spinach or by flecks of herbs and vegetables added to a terrine of rabbit set in a pale, jewel-like aspic. Wielding a tiny round cutter that he found in Japan, Robuchon scoops pinpoints of ivory...
...Italian press, never renowned for its restraint, tackled the story with gusto. Turin's La Stampa carried a headline about "poison salad on the table." Public fears grew when one newspaper erroneously reported that infant mortality was widespread in the tomato-growing area. Although the Italian government gave the crop a clean bill of health, public uncertainty lingers. Francesco De Lorenzo, Under Secretary of the Ministry of Health, declared that the state had tested the samples with procedures identical to those of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and had found no traces of the pesticide above .05 parts...