Word: whetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accounts, Bhutto's father was a strong influence on her. While still an undergraduate at Harvard, Bhutto accompanied the late prime minister on his official trips abroad. In 1972, her father introduced her to the late Indian Minister Indira Gandhi--it was a visit that whet Benazir's appetite for government...
...Korea a special meal starts with a colorful tray of kujolpan, morsels of meat and vegetables to whet the appetite. This show is kujolpan for the 177 1/ 2-hour feast to follow...
...meal are worth the cost. There is stiff competition between take-out sources, so much so that last year New York's D'Agostino chain hired a graduate chef from the Culinary Institute of America to oversee its new prepared-food operation. With such talent, D'Agostino hopes to whet the appetites -- and curiosity -- of New Yorkers accustomed to such entrenched take-out sources as Balducci's, Grace's Marketplace and upscale supermarkets. Raley's in Northern California, out to trim fat profits from local Chinese restaurants, placed five chefs at a hot-wok counter to stir-fry such wonders...
...this grudging spirit that Botha proposed his "reforms" -- whose chief effect was, not surprisingly, to whet the appetite for more. It was in this spirit that he called for new elections, thinking that he could crush his critics on the right by campaigning on a platform of xenophobia. But Botha soon found himself confronting an unprecedented wave of criticism from the "left," which is left only in relation to Afrikaner traditionalism. This criticism came from three important directions...
...from Spain, and its name is tapas. Although at first glance the word looks a little like something spelled backward, tapas has a meaning all its own. In Spain, at the sherry-sipping hours before lunch and dinner, bars offer an array of small dishes, hot and cold, to whet appetites for dinner and develop a thirst for further drinking. The convivial custom is popular from Barcelona to Seville, but Penelope Casas, in her cookbook Tapas: The Little Dishes of Spain (Knopf), speculates that it began about a century ago in Andalusia, the home of sherry. Customers in wine bars...