Word: chickening
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...heading to a Baghdad airport, his Iraqi escorts suddenly diverted his car to a farm purportedly owned by Hussein Kamel. Ekeus was presented with 150 metal trunks and boxes crammed with documents that the Iraqis claimed the general had hidden from the government in his chicken house. American officials laughed at the notion that Hussein Kamel ever kept any records secret from Saddam. The steel cases, Ekeus said, "had not a speck of dust on them," a clear clue that they'd been quickly planted...
...Chicken and turkey processors can no longer call their birds "fresh" when the poultry was frozen weeks earlier and thawed only for market. Under new labeling requirements announced by the Agriculture Department, such birds are considered "hard chilled...
...schedules are impossible here, and by the second week--with my roommates scattered across campus in different sections--I found myself alone at the Union. After rushing to the nearest corner to save face, I began shoveling the broccoli-chicken souffle into my mouth, determined to end my pain. Looking back, I set myself up for the hit. Two girls plopped down beside me, introduced themselves ("Hi, I'm Cathy.") and then began a conversation about what kind of anti-social people would eat alone in the Union--all the while ignoring me. Only 282 more meals to Winter Break...
...Klopas, defender Alexi Lalas and attacker Eric Wynalda each scored as goaltender Kasey Keller turned away 21 shots. The Argentines, who have won more Copas than any other country, had elected to play several reserves in order to rest their frontline starters. But still--3-0 to a dead chicken? In the quarterfinals, the U.S. and Mexico fought to a 0-0 tie in regulation, sending the game into a sudden-death shoot-out. Brad Friedel, who alternates with Keller in goal, stopped two of three penalty kicks, and the U.S. shooters converted on all three of theirs...
...scare into the Brazilians, who had never lost to the North Americans and in fact had not given up a goal to them in 65 years. As Carlos Alberto Parreira, who coached Brazil to its World Cup victory last year, says, "The U.S. is not the dead chicken that everyone used to think...