Word: caking
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Other stories are more touching, like the family that wanted to personally thank one of Crider's platoons for making the neighborhood safe enough for their son to get married, preparing a feast of chicken, rice and cake for the men. There was also an older lady who proudly showed Captain Nicholas M. Cook, one of the better-known American soldiers in the neighborhood, a photograph of herself decorated by the minister of defense under the old regime. She had been one of the only female generals under Saddam but was too afraid to even display the photograph...
...million-vote lead vanished amid reports of improbably high voter turnout in Kibaki strongholds. Kibaki was hastily sworn in and promptly banned live TV as the violence surged in the streets. (At the height of the crisis, a broadcaster aired children's shows in which smiling kids sang, "Patty-cake, patty-cake.") On Jan. 1, a church in Kiambaa where Kikuyu had sought refuge was burned by an angry mob. At least 50 people, many of them women and children, died in the attack. In the midst of the violence, analysts say, it will be difficult to get the results...
...exclusive boarding school Eton, was always academically gifted. But his reports there expressed worries that he might squander his potential by spreading himself too thin. It's a habit he's maintained in overlapping careers as a journalist, novelist, poet, classical historian, media personality and politician. "My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it," says Johnson, who became editor of the venerable British political magazine the Spectator in 1999 and swiftly reneged on a promise to Conrad Black, its proprietor at the time, not to seek a parliamentary seat. Johnson biographer Andrew Gimson later interviewed Black...
...Eliot House, classmates knew Bhutto for her cake-making skills, fervent patriotism, and “white-hot intensity,” said former Eliot House resident Bruce E.H. Johnson ’72, now a Seattle lawyer. Bhutto was initially shy, he said, but she “became more interested and open to her colleagues at college...
...Eliot House, classmates knew Bhutto for her cake-making skills, fervent patriotism, and "white-hot intensity," said Eliot House resident Bruce E.H. Johnson '73, now a Seattle lawyer. Bhutto was initially shy, he said, but she "became more and more interested and open to her colleagues at college...