Word: ah
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...Ah, yes—the good-ol’ “High School Sweetheart Dilemma,” a challenge that has plagued college students for ages...
...official language. Now he prowls the carless, bicycle-clogged streets of Madrid, tracking runaway kids and errant spouses for $100 a day plus expenses. He keeps a bottle of whiskey in his filing cabinet under the letter I, for Indispensable. Into his crummy office one day walks ? ah, but we're getting ahead of the story. Clot is the hard-boiled, hard-drinking hero of Blood on the Saddle, the first novel by Rafael Reig to be translated into English (smoothly, by Paul Hammond). A finalist for the 2003 Premio Fundación Lara, Spain's top literary prize...
...shorter blonde hair with gel and has a habit of stroking his goatee, wore small-framed glasses and Diesel jeans. “Well, you gotta try to blend in,” the Nashville native told them. “You gotta master the Woohoo! and the ye-ah.” He laughed. “Oh man, holy shit. Well,” and he looked them over one last time, “good luck...
...organs that purportedly have curative powers. They include the rapidly vanishing tiger and the unfortunate pangolin. According to the dictionary, pangolin scales can be "used to cure tumefaction [swelling], promote blood circulation and help breast-feeding mothers produce milk." If he wanted a more up-to-date answer, Jema'ah could also have asked Wei Hong, a Guangdong native in his mid-30s who developed a taste for pangolin meat when his father bought some 20 years ago in the hope of curing a skin disease. With the meat now selling at an exorbitant $100 a kilogram, Wei, a journalist...
...forests once teemed with pangolin. But the reproductive capacity of the slow-moving mammal is no match for Chinese appetites, and pangolins have been all but eradicated on the mainland. Now gourmets, traditional medicine practitioners and businessmen looking to show off their wealth rely on the likes of Jema'ah. But even in distant Sumatran forests, the pangolin is growing harder to find. "I used to catch big ones" of up to 20 kilograms, Jema'ah says. "But the biggest I catch these days are eight kilos...