Word: bean
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...source of her food poisoning: Harvard food. I'll eat anything once but never again will I eat a bean tostada...
...then there's the bean-counting anal-retentive jerk who insists on splitting all expenses with his wife, even those that are exclusively his. He apparently hates warmth of any kind, since he enjoys nothing more than eating ice cream with the windows wide open, and treats his marriage like a business arrangement...
...obsession, perhaps because a lot of gear has vaguely military associations (guns, of course, are gear). A definition is elusive, but a wristwatch that just tells time is not gear. A wristwatch that also reads out altitude and barometric pressure is gear to make a grown man whimper. L.L. Bean sells one made by Casio...
Heaven in the title of Barbara Kingsolver's new novel is not paradise but a small town in Oklahoma, probably not far from where the Cherokee infant girl was abandoned in Taylor Greer's car in Kingsolver's first novel, The Bean Trees...
...Christensen would agree; the gang enforcement officer with the Portland police maintains that his town has "tolerance for different life-styles, as long as they're liberal life-styles. There's no tolerance for skinheads." Yet rival gangs of bald men with tattoos have now lent this chamomile-and-bean-spro ut metropolis a Mad Max edge...