Word: flavor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anger of Achilles: Homer's Iliad, translated by Robert Graves. A charming prose-and-verse Iliad in which the customary flavor of chalk dust is replaced by sharp-tasting satire...
...watch television." Corso wonders if the bishop knows about "beer bottles that come in magic candlesticks. Is alligators holy, Bishop? Is everything holy? Are we all in heaven now and don't know about it? Jamambi, jamambi, jamambi, jamac." After that, the plot thins, but it is the flavor that matters. On the floor, walls, ceiling are "toothbrush cockroaches, coffee cockroaches, peanut butter cockroaches," and "the Empire State has fallen into the Gowanus Canal...
...Labrador some 40 years ago, Birdseye began to wonder why fish and meat that he froze quickly in the -50° temperature tasted just as good and fresh when he cooked them six months later, while food frozen by the old, slow method lost much of its quality and flavor. Birdseye persisted until he found out why: quick freezing prevents formation of large cell-destroying ice crystals. He went back home to Gloucester, worked out a commercial quick-freeze process, set up the business that became the foundation of the frozen-foods industry. In 1929 he sold his 168 patents...
...Anger of Achilles: Homer's Iliad, translated by Robert Graves. A charming prose-and-verse Iliad, in which the customary flavor of chalk dust is replaced by sharp-tasting satire...
...like an acceptance, the rebel reply amounted to a rejection of De Gaulle's terms-which specified that the negotiations be confined to arrangements for a ceasefire, and should not include discussion of Algeria's political future. But what gave the rebel announcement an unmistakably smart-aleck flavor was that all five of the proposed rebel representatives have been in French prisons for more than three years; four of them, including Ben Bella himself, landed there in a celebrated coup in October 1956, when a Moroccan plane carrying them from Rabat to Tunis was diverted by the French...