Word: chickening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seat in the General Assembly. The nation's Security Council slot is not in jeopardy. But that would still leave Washington more than $1 billion in the hole, which the Administration finds unacceptable. And no one knows if the U.N.-bashing G.O.P.--which showed a willingness to play chicken politics with the White House over the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty last month--is really ready to compromise. "Having seen what's happened over the last couple of years," U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan told TIME, "I hesitate to hazard a guess...
...days after my throat starts itching--the classic first sign of an upper-respiratory infection--I'm too congested to think straight. All I want to do for the next five days is sink into a warm bed or drown in a vat of chicken soup. So I was intrigued early last week by reports of a nasal spray, called Zicam, that is supposed to keep a cold from lasting more than a day and a half. Even though the results sounded too good to be true, I thought they were worth a closer look...
...plain room with a large mirror that I somehow know is one-way glass. They tell me I'm a focus group, all by myself. They assure me that I'll be paid $50 for my cooperation and be provided with a box lunch, choice of chicken-salad sandwich or smoked-turkey-and-arugula wrap. I should be aware, they say, that my lunch choice, coordinated with my party registration and weighted for my age and sex, will be used as one of the predictors of who will occupy the White House after January...
...Where is Jimmie's Chicken Shack? Do they have a good rotisserie...
...Actually, it is from the biography of Malcolm X. One of our friends was reading the book at the time. He told us that it was a sketchy restaurant in Harlem. And since three of us are named Jimi, we thought Jimmie's Chicken Shack was appropriate...