Word: chickening
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After bellicose griping about foul calls, spectators chanted “we want wings” as the last seconds ticked off the clock—a local grill gives the tasty chicken treats away if the Cougars win and score 88 points or more. But a trio of missed three-pointers from Charleston ensured that the rowdy fans would go home hungry while Harvard went back to its hotel with a humbling loss...
After bellicose griping about foul calls, spectators chanted "we want wings" as the last seconds ticked off the clock—a local grill gives the tasty chicken treats away if the Cougars win and score 88 points or more. But a trio of missed three-pointers from Charleston ensured that the rowdy fans would go home hungry while Harvard went back to its hotel with a humbling loss...
...those looking for more practical reads, Jack Canfield knows a thing or two about success. After all, he's a co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which has sold more than 80 million books worldwide. His latest entry is the quintessential self-help book--THE SUCCESS PRINCIPLES: HOW TO GET FROM WHERE YOU ARE TO WHERE YOU WANT TO BE. Can Canfield do it again, or will he be in the soup...
...back, once referred to vegetarians as "the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit." The book is written in the same brusque style, and its language can get a little profane. The introduction to poulet r?ti gently proclaims, "If you can't properly roast a damn chicken then you're one helpless, hopeless, sorry-ass bivalve in an apron." Pearl onions are "little f____ers." And butter should be formed into a log "like you would roll a joint" for the faux-filet au beurre rouge. Betty Crocker...
...Ding's prosperity is shared with just about everyone living in Yiwu, China's very own North Pole. Thousands of vendors offer whirling Christmas trees with glowing fiber-optic needles, chicken-feather angel wings and that traditional favorite without which no holiday living room is complete: the plastic statuette of Santa playing electric guitar on the moon. All this might have confused Chinese consumers a few years ago, but Yiwu is feeding a ravenous demand by mainland consumers who think that the height of contemporary urbanity is to festoon the living room in December. "I'd always heard of Christmas...