Word: biscuit
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...information you needed - whether it was pointers on an arcane aspect of TIME style, the current status of some attempted coup or the latest scrap of office gossip - Penny knew. And she would happily tell you, too, over a steaming cup of organic Earl Grey tea and a chocolate biscuit. In Hong Kong, where Penny was an associate editor with TIME 's Asian edition before taking on the same role for the European edition in London, she was known as "Moneypenny," after the indefatigable assistant in the James Bond series. The nickname reflected not only Penny's remarkable efficiency...
...Taking The Biscuit British biscuitmaker McVitie's unveiled a mannequin, complete with a motorized mouth and plastic teeth, to sample its products and measure the amount of crumbs produced...
...Kerry is wise, he will resist the temptation to buck tradition and name his number two far in advance of the July Democratic National Convention. A hungry media is craving Kerry’s selection and, when it’s made, will digest it with haste. His best biscuit will be gone with November still many months away...
Thinning also seems of dubious merit in many mixed-severity fire regimes, except as a protective measure around the perimeter of communities. Consider, for example, the Biscuit fire that hopped and skipped across 500,000 acres in southern Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest last year. Slightly more than 15% of this rugged, geologically complex region was so seriously burned that virtually all the trees died. Around 65%, however, experienced fires of light and moderate severity, while some 20% escaped unscathed. Seed from areas where vegetation survived is already drifting into areas where vegetation was lost, and many important species--knobcone...
...Biscuit, a West Coast horse, wins his big race--a head-to-head encounter with War Admiral, owned by a snooty Eastern establishment figure--which may be the story's natural end, but it's not the true one or the movie's. The horse gets hurt. Pollard gets hurt. They must try to make one last comeback, which overrides conventional movie wisdom as surely as the horse galloped past racing's conventional wisdom...