Foreign Phrases
A common greeting at Jewish holidays, it's Hebrew for "peace"
Shalom
Rod on which people broil meat of what wine tasters do after sampling a wine
Spit
Very expensive these days due to low supply, it's the gas used to fill toy balloons
You'll find it with the salad dressings
Miracle Whip
a fertile, watered area in the midst of the desert
Oasis
If you sneeze in Berlin, you might hear this expression meaning "good health"
Gesundheit
Two essential ingredients in succotash
Corn and Lima Beans
The most plentiful element on earth
Oxygen
1962 film about a teacher's triumph over a child's disabilities
the miracle worker
Colorful Arizona badlands
Painted Desert
Latin for "by the day" it's what some people get for daily expenses.
Per diem
Her "The I Hate to Cook Book" cooked up millions of sales
Peg Bracken
On the periodic chart, it's the last natural element, #92, symbol of U. Used in Nuclear power
Uranium
Holiday film classic set in Macy's
Miracle on 34th street
This desert dwelling species of cuckoo can sometimes fool "wiley" coyotes
Roadrunner
Often found on invitations and sometimes ignored, RSVP stands for this French phrase
S'il vous plait
If it's "A La Russe" it contains this.
sour cream
Silver's chemical symbol, it's derived from the Latin for silver, argentums
AG
Name for shopping and insurance area on Wilshire BI in LA
Miracle Mile
Southern California hotspot with streets named after Hope, Sinatra and Audrey.
Palm Springs
Jefferson was one of the 1st to embrace this concept of non interference.
Laissez fair
From Latin for "glue" it's the sticky substance that helps bread rise
Gluten
Organic chemistry is primarily the study of the compounds of this element
Carbon
Damyon Runyon yarn brought to screen with Bette Davis as Apple Annie
Pocketful of Miracles
Marco Polo crossed this, the world's oldest desert, to reach China
Gobi Desert