Word: ashtrays
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WHEN AN INTRUDER sneaks into Queen Elizabeth's bedroom in Buckingham Palace and holds the monarch at bay for 15 minutes with a broken glass ashtray, nothing the United States could do--short of attacking the Cliffs of Dover--would distract the British people from their chagrin and outrage...
...wire, shinnied up a drainpipe, and climbed through a window to roam the vast palace corridors. Fagan must have given Her Majesty quite a start. Reportedly, he wore jeans and a dirty T shirt, and dripped blood on the royal bedclothes from a lacerated hand. He cradled a broken ashtray as he sat on her bed. But he made no threatening moves against the 56-year-old monarch, preferring instead to chat about the coincidence that each of them has four children. Pagan's mother Ivy told the Daily Mail, "He thinks so much of the Queen...
...former Senator Herman Talmadge-and author of an excellent cookbook, How to Cook a Pig-has been acquiring porcine memorabilia for seven years. Chicago's Charles Braverman, a commodities trader in pork bellies, owns, among other items, a $2,000 brass pig dinner bell, a $2,400 pig ashtray and a 100-lb. lead pig, which adorns the front of his house. David Mercer, 36, a former lawyer who started Boston's Hog Wild! in 1978, mails the Hogalog catalogue advertising his "Pork Avenue Collection" to 30,000 subscribers at $1 apiece...
...discussion moved effortlessly to the Mets. For the first time since I've been here, someone else broached the subject for me. I leisurely went to the fridge for another cold one, kicking over an ashtray and a half-full bottle of Bud. I was trying to stay cool but my buzz was getting the better...
...their catcher) doesn't get hurt, if the pitching holds up, and if someone nukes the Pirates to make sure they are really dead, but somehow I blurted out. "They'll probably take the Series in six." In the course of my overzealous proclamation. I managed to dump the ashtray again. I was thrashing, but how long were the Mets going to be three games over 500 anyway. Later my bed was spinning when I finally found...