Word: chickening
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...freshly landed from the mainland, were building their capital in Taipei, for the native Taiwanese, descendants mostly of Fujian and Guangdong natives who settled during the 17th century, life was hardscrabble. What kids like A-Bian dreamed about was a full stomach. He ate only rice most meals. Beef, chicken and fish were for special occasions. His family's typical stone, red-roofed house consisted of four simple rooms built around a courtyard and an open hearth. They used to write on the charcoal-stained walls in chalk how much they owed to neighbors and merchants. His father...
...home." Increasingly, his new home looks like the one he left behind. The area around the Gubei district, where many transplants live, is crowded with Taiwan restaurant chains serving island specialties like fried oysters and clams with basil, while sidewalk vendors peddle Taiwanese favorites like betel nut and barbecued chicken sphincters on a stick. Taiwanese madams oversee karaoke bar-brothels. Bemused new arrivals can get help with acclimation from books like the bestseller Shanghai Migrants, which advises that "a few thousand yuan a month will support a second wife, and that's a good deal because she'll also cook...
Drawing from four farm towns, the CAL and Dows school districts, in a chicken-and hog-farming area about 90 miles north of Des Moines, are excelling despite declining enrollment. They have successfully negotiated the kind of consolidation that often tears schools and communities apart. And they serve as models for other rural districts with shrinking populations, especially in the Great Plains states...
...that standard fairy-tale trope about the transformative powers of love and provides a neat switch on all those Snow White-Sleeping Beauty legends. But let's not stress morals and messages. Let's stress the sheer, cheeky fun of this movie. And the fact that Shrek, like Chicken Run a year ago, enchantingly expands animation's palette and possibilities...
...perhaps the most important development of the upfronts so far, however, after disappointing setbacks at the NBC and ABC post-presentation parties, the soiree CBS put on for advertisers did, in fact, finally have the little chicken kabobs, grilled crisp outside yet moist inside. It's that attention to the little details that makes a season...