Word: wrapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slice into eight wedges each. Sift 1½ cups of flour with 1 tsp. salt, cut in ½ cup shortening. Moisten with 4 or 5 tbs. of cold water. Roll out into 16-in. by 10-in. rectangle and cut into 16 10-in. by 1-in. strips. Wrap one strip around each apple slice. Arrange, without touching sides, in 13-in. by 9-in. by 2-in. baking pan. Brush with ⅓ cup melted butter; sprinkle with ½ cup sugar mixed with 1 tsp. cinnamon. Pour ½ cup of water over pastries. Bake (450°) 25 to 30 minutes...
...three weeks ago amidst Russian cries of threatening war, the U.N. General Assembly met in Manhattan to defuse the international time bombs threatening the peace of the Middle East. Last week, after eight days of palaver, the Assembly brought forth its own novel method of bomb disposal. The technique: wrap the infernal device in verbal cotton wool-this deadens that unpleasant ticking sound-and tiptoe quickly away...
...Lean Detroit Righthander Jim Bunning, chomping impassively on a wad of gum, hit a batter and walked two, but struck out twelve others, got Red Sox Slugger Ted Williams on a routine outfield fly for the last out to wrap up a 3-0 victory at Boston's Fenway Park, become the first major leaguer to pitch a no-hit game...
This would be true growth, say the geneticists, and evolution would soon improve the original breed. DNA would eventually wrap itself in cells and retire to their nuclei to give orders. Cells would later band together into multicelled animals, but they would not escape the commands of the DNA within them. Samuel Butler wrote: "A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg." Geneticists like to make this remark more general: "All plants, and animals and humans," they say, "are DNA's way of making more...
Life on Isle aux Chiens flows along endlessly, and she leaves it just where she found it. It is a pity that Author Grau did not wrap up the island in one of her fine short stories that have the knack of checking a perpetual flow and explaining its course...