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Remove the seeds from the chiles. Brown the chiles, soak them in warm water for 15 minutes, then grind into a paste. Roast the removed chile seeds, grind them together with the chocolate and all the other ingredients (except the sesame seeds). This makes two separate pastes. Put them together and fry in plenty of shortening, stirring constantly until thick. Then dilute with chicken or turkey broth to the consistency of cream soup. Pour all this over slices of boiled turkey, bring the entire dish to a boil for five minutes, serve sprinkled with sesame seed. Sop the sauce with...
...cousin gave her plenty to talk about. "Why," said she, "you'd think to see [Americans] in the movies they lived in tiled bathrooms and took a barth every mornin'. Not that I'm against it ... I do like to 'ave a good 'ot soak once in a while, after cleanin' out the 'en 'ouse. . . . But when you get there, they're jest ordinary folks like us. ... When you see 'em, you like 'em. Wot's more, they like...
...invasion is part of Yale's plan for producing not just casebook lawyers but what Dean Wesley A. Sturges calls "the policy-making man of tomorrow." Even the lawyers on Yale's faculty soak their casebooks in a heady wine of history, sociology, politics and economics, like to call in everybody from coal barons to clinical psychiatrists as guest experts. Says Sturges: "Our idea of law is more than the butterfly-&-microscope approach, the anatomy of legal proceedings. We try to put the rules of law into their social setting...
...Hamburg, well-dressed citizens hungrily peeked into garbage cans in front of Allied homes. There were few pets left in the city-an old household trick, now revived, was to soak cats in skimmed milk diluted with water for eight hours, to make them tender enough to eat. The current fee for prostitutes was two slices of bread. In Essen, where the official daily ration is 1.550 calories a day, some people were getting only 887-which meant three slices of bread baked with mixed cornmeal and wheat flour and two teaspoonfuls of sugar...
Said Rudy: "This is a test case to see what people think of me now. If it's a clambake, I'll go back to Palm Springs and soak...