Word: chewed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Burke was tempted to take the appointment -- in part, she says, so that she could spend more time with her husband, insurance executive David Chew, and their three small children, ages three, five and seven. (She managed to deliver two of them while the Senate was in recess.) But characteristically, she instead took on the job in addition to her other duties. The arrangement didn't work, so given the choice again, Burke returned to full-time policymaking as chief of staff...
...featured flavor was Reese's Peanut Butter Cup ice cream. And, yes, it really does taste like the candy you get in the shiny orange wrapper from a vending machine. The chunks of peanut butter and chocolate in the vanilla ice cream were tasty, but often difficult to chew because they were large and frozen solid. The Reese's Peanut Butter Cup was probably the sweetest ice cream we tried...
...killing) other insects, lizards, birds and small mammals, knocking natural ecosystems completely out of whack. Their mounds -- up to hundreds of them per acre -- have made many a farm field all but unplowable. And because the ants are strangely attracted to electric current, they have been known to chew through underground cables, disrupting everything from telephone service to airport runway lights and even starting fires...
...least that's what will happen if Social Security endures in something like its present form. Should it? Though it's anathema to most politicians to say so, among the scholars and policy analysts who study the budget charts and chew their nails in suspense as the baby boomers inch toward later life, the verdict is just about unanimous: as Social Security nears its 60th birthday, it is ripe for retirement...
...blanks on vocabulary sheets with the sliding ink of Bic pens--the kind you can buy in 20-packs at CVS. These plastic wonders are a good ol' standby, always there to jot down messages for your roommate on a Post-it or, more importantly, for you to chew on. What a perfect companion a blueberry-colored, Paper Mate makes when you sit on the third floor of Hilles, worrying about tomorrow...