Word: burro
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...Aside from these quibbles, Border has an hour-long wait on most weekend nights for two key reasons: it has the twenty-something bar scene nailed down, and it serves the burro. The burro, while not technically a burrito, hits the spot like no other dish in the Square. It’s basically a burrito slathered in melted cheese and a little bit of enchilada sauce. While some complain that they can “still feel the burro the next day” and “feel like they’re sweating burro for weeks...
...Sacramento mountains checkerspot butterfly is unique, found in all the world only on 2,000 acres of high meadow in the village of Cloudcroft, N.M. (pop. 768, altitude 8,640 ft.), and the adjoining Lincoln National Forest. The 2-in. checkerspot colorfully floods Burro Street, Cloudcroft's main drag, every summer, and it takes its scientific name--Euphydryas anicia cloudcrofti--from the town that shares its habitat...
...impersonates Mark Twain was discovered there. Nine contestants made it to the finals, where Edythe Bregnard, 63, the "Pixie Poet" of Sun City, Ariz., gave the winning speech, a whimsical look at aging, delivered partly in light verse. Given little chance to win, Bregnard outdid the likes of Erik Burro, a New Jersey video producer who impersonates a bewigged William Penn...
...raids by G.I.s. Most of the military-intelligence officials were junior officers with no formal training, the paper complained. What's more, the interpreters they relied on were "middle-age convenience-store workers and cab drivers" whose Arabic was only good enough "to tell the difference between a burro and a burrito...
...That’s finishing in a beauty contest behind a burro,” he wrote...