Word: burgesses
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...BRAND X PICTURES/GETTY. MANIPULATION BY GARETH BURGESS console the 1,750 passengers who had paid up to $79,000 to flee the British winter. But some memories of the fiasco might be blunted by P&O's provision of free drinks while it tried to make the 76,000-ton luxury liner seaworthy. The drinks tally for the truncated trip came to 12,800 beers, 12,600 bottles of wine and 9,800 cocktails...
Sure, there have been exceptions (say, Matisse's The Dance), but it would not be a stretch to say that for the past century or so, serious art has been at war with happiness. In 1824, Beethoven completed the "Ode to Joy." In 1962, novelist Anthony Burgess used it in A Clockwork Orange as the favorite piece of his ultraviolent antihero. If someone titles an art movie Happiness, it is a good bet that it will be--as the 1998 Todd Solondz film was--about deeply unhappy people, including a telephone pervert and a pedophile...
...first half, a ball squirted loose at the Central Connecticut State free throw line and Mannering directly collided heads with Blue Devils guard Denee Burgess on the ensuing scramble...
...according to Susan Burgess, HUDS assistant director of procurement, the search for a new bakery began before rumors of Nesson’s bankruptcy...
...this case, it was a pretty simple decision,” Burgess said. “The prices were better. Percentage-wise, it was a double digit decrease, and the quality of the bread is much better...