LET'S EAT HEALTHY
Hake & shad are on the National Resources Defense Council list of fish low in this element (that's what you want).
Once a ball girl for the Oakland A's, in 1997 she opened her first chocolate chippery.
Female turkeys are called hens; males are called toms or this voracious word from the sound they make.
Gobblers
A heavy twill fabric for work or leisure garments.
Denim
His first screen test brought the verdict "Can't act. Slightly bald. Can dance a little".
In 1691, after 71 years on its own, Plymouth became a part of this colony.
The betacyanin that makes these veggies red may also help fight cancer.
Beets
As the first female U.S. Attorney General, she headed the Department of Justice.
Janet Reno
This founding father wrote that the eagle was a coward but the turkey was respectable & a Native American.
Benjamin Franklin
It was made a territorial capital in 1867.
Denver
In 1754 at Fort Necessity, his first major military command brought the one surrender of his career--& to the French!
This barrelmaker & future husband of Priscilla Mullens was hired at Southampton before the ship left England.
John Alden
In 2004, 2 West Virginia men traded gunfire over how to cook a nice healthy skinless this.
Chicken
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She helped found the Nat'l Women's Political Caucus in 1971 & a year later launched "Ms." magazine.
This ragtime dance step resembles the wing & foot movement of the bird.
The Turkey Trot
A name for a class of things, like a religious group or a unit of currency.
Denomination
He immortalized Donna Johnson, who refused to marry him, as the red-haired girl Charlie Brown adores.
Charles Shultz
This Indian showed the Pilgrims how to plant corn & served as their interpreter in dealings with Massasoit.
Squanto
Broccoli has about the same amount of this mineral for healthy bones & teeth as milk
Calcium
In 1984 she married fellow TV journalist Maury Povich.
The turkey symbolizes Freedom from Want in this illustrator's Four Freedoms series.
Norman Rockwell
From the Latin for "to blacken", it means to sully or to defame.
Denigrate
In story, a beaten Robert the Bruce was inspired to keep fighting by seeing this creature weaving persistently.
A spider
This son of William & Susanna White was born on the Mayflower & grew up to be a captain in the colony's militia.
Peregrine White
Foods that offer a "complete" protein contain all 9 essential ones of these.
Amino Acids
Accused of corruption, this Pakistani prime minister was dismissed in 1990 & again in 1996
Benazir Bhutto
Though this amino acid in turkey is reputed to make you doze off on Thanksgiving, carbs & booze do at least as much.
Triptophan
An inhabitant or resident of a particular area.
A denizen
In 1962 his idea of putting big stores in small towns got zero response from the Ben Franklin retail chain.
Sam Walton
Plymouth's governor for over 30 years, he wrote "Plimoth Plantation", the main record of Pilgrim life.
William Bradford