Word: simmering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blame Joe Gibbs most of all. He broke his tradition of loyalty. He refused to stick by his quarterback, letting Williams and Rypien dance like marionnettes for him. He has let controversy simmer and made the team 45 separate players. Our direction has vanished...
Twenty-one recipes for meat and four for vegetables are written on the best preserved of the tablets. Instructions call for most of the food to be prepared with water and fats, and to simmer slowly in covered pots, Bottero said...
...surely imminent. In Britain the empire has collapsed upon itself. A long generation ago the colonists came home, followed by their colonials -- dark skins, quick minds and rebellious hearts from the East and West Indies and beyond. Now England's urban centers are postimperial melting pots. The streets simmer with new neighbors and old rancors, and people are getting burned...
Japan's automakers, which voluntarily limit exports to the U.S. to 2.3 million cars a year, are rapidly shifting production to American shores in hopes of dousing the protectionist sentiments that continue to simmer in the U.S. Congress. Many firms are finding an added benefit: it is now cheaper to build cars in Ohio than in Osaka. By the early 1990s, at least 14 Japanese plants in the U.S. could be turning out 2 million cars a year...
...itinerary in Promised Land. And once he got it right, he always wanted it to be the same kind of right. In Taylor Hackford's Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll, which chronicles the preparation and performance of Berry's 60th-birthday concert in St. Louis last year, tempers simmer as Berry keeps running Keith Richards, the concert's music director, through the opening guitar slur for Carol. And yet at the end of their concert -- which features guest shots by Linda Ronstadt, Eric Clapton, Etta James, Robert Cray and Julian Lennon -- Richards can feel satisfied that he provided a fine...