meat and potatoes

As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.

As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

The smell of grilled meat mixes with the exotic wafts of cinnamon tea served with a mush of sweet brown dessert.

Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.

Limbaugh makes comments like this because his right-wing fans require a non–stop diet of race-baiting red meat.

The sailors sometimes use it to fry their meat, for want of butter, and find it agreeable enough.

She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.

We had new potatoes for dinner, boiled with their skins on, and Liszt threw one at me, and I caught it.

The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.

No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.