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Buffalo Tongue. The book is a social history of New World food from Indian pemmican and succotash to the TV Dinner. Its basic approach is a soup-to-nuts chronology, including chapters on restaurants, drinking habits and "The Great American Sweet Tooth." Sweetness, the authors argue, is a dominant flavor on the national palate, partly traceable to England where treacle tarts are frequently washed down with heavily sugared tea. The Pilgrim forebears sat down to Thanksgiving dinners that were liberally drenched in maple syrup...
Moderate and liberal Republicans will meet informally in a location still to be decided next week to work out strategy for what some expect to be a tooth-and-nail fight with the conservatives. Michigan Governor William Milliken, who is organizing the skull session, believes that a takeover of the G.O.P.'s national machinery by the Reaganite right wing could only narrow the party's constituency; he argues that to survive nationally, the Republicans must broaden their base of support, as the party did in his state. Said he: "This is the reason we have won so many...
...penalty [Oct. 18]. Numerous studies have concluded that the death penalty has virtually no deterrent effect on those in a position to commit capital offenses, but it would appear that the Supreme Court has predicated its decision upon a passage from the Bible: "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." What will be next, Saturday Night Live, with Chevy Chase and the execution of the week...
Among the most gratifying occasions Lane can recall is the time when he "squeezed Rothman's jaw just after he had had a tooth pulled," shortly after, he says, Rothman attempted to "chop down the walls of an elderly tenant who was unable to pay her rent...
...rotary hoe is (a) a subcommittee of the Rotary International, (b) a folk dance in a "hoe down," (c) a type of spike-tooth harrow, (d) a Cultipacker used in no-till agriculture, (e) a farm implement used to loosen soil after planting...