Word: vinegar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could get his trousers away from Abe. "Crusty-faced Democrats never were no good,' he mumbled to himself." Bert gets his pants back at the end of a story which, in the telling, is somehow a quick-sketch portrait, but never a caricature, of the two old vinegar sippers...
...disguise ('and when you have found him, bring me word, that I may also come and worship him'); to Judas, the original businessman with the contract in the pocket; and to the anonymous vulgar Jewish farceur who, in answer to Christ's 'Eli', eh' forced a reed filled with vinegar between His lips." The twin masks of the Jew-mutilator and usurer thus had Biblical sanction "at a time when literature flourished under clerical auspices and when nine tenths of the corpus poeticum derived from Biblical paraphrases and martyrologies. . ." In ballads and morality plays the two roles were already being...
...calories, only 20% of which come from fats of any kind, 5% from saturated fats. A sample menu: pasta al brodo (turkey broth with noodles), veal scallopine a la Marsala, fresh green beans, homemade Italian bread (no margarine or butter), cookies, a tossed salad (dressed with tarragon vinegar and corn oil), espresso coffee and fruit...
Rarely has the discerning palate been assailed by a less pretentious offering: a raw string bean, pickled in vinegar and dill. Yet the Dilly Bean, touted as "the best idea since the peanut and the pretzel," last week had captured the fancy of cocktail-hour nibblers on the East and West coasts, and was rapidly making tycoons out of two ex-schoolmarms who run Manhattan's Park & Hagna Inc.. the bean's maker. People also serve Dilly Beans in martinis, salads, sandwiches, cream cheese and beef Stroganoff-and have discovered that poodles love them. Eaten right from...
...night, Cubans listened to the anti-Castro broadcasts from U.S.-operated Radio Swan in the Caribbean and whispered among themselves that Castro militiamen had been found hanging from trees in the suburbs of Havana and Santi ago. Grocery stores reported a run on vinegar, as word spread that breathing through a vinegar-soaked cloth would counteract the effects of tear gas and other gases expected to be used when invasion starts...