Word: chickening
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...feast kicked off the first World Pork Expo trade show, organized by the National Pork Producers Council as part of a campaign to boost pork's popularity. Last year U.S. pork consumption was up only 1.6%, to 7.5 million tons, compared with chicken's 9% rise, to 9.5 million tons. Nonetheless, the producers were encouraged by the BarbeQlossal turnout. They say the feast will make the Guinness Book of World Records. The category: "Largest Single-Day Barbecue Serving...
...know very little about pH soil tests. I think I know how to prune a rosebush, but the rosebush may think otherwise. I learned from my father the basic rules of mulching and thinning -- how to stake out the tomatoes, how to make the peas climb up the chicken wire, how to bind up the raspberries -- but the techniques that worked in the fertile hills of Vermont do not necessarily work in the sands of Long Island. Most important of all, I do not have the time (or the energy) to play some character out of Tolstoy. I live...
...Jackson. His Secret Service limousine takes him to a back door of the Hyatt Wilshire in Los Angeles, where Jackson is staying. Reporters, alerted to the rendezvous, race through the hotel, but Dukakis evades them. Jackson's suite is a mess. As aides dispose of the remains of a chicken-and-greens dinner, Secret Service agents sweep swarming journalists from the corridor...
...hour before curtain, in the basement of the 1,100-seat Cort Theater, the kids assemble for a voice lesson under a maze of heating pipes and lighting wires. Take-out fried chicken, quarts of Tropicana are put aside. "Feel how loose your tongue is! Baaa, baaa, baaa," exhorts the teacher, an ivory- skinned redhead, hammering on a piano key with her index finger. The kids imitate the sound and start giggling. "Don't laugh at each other! We're here to learn!" scolds the redhead. Silence. Then a few whispers in Zulu. "Heee, heee, haaa, haaa!" sings the teacher...
...Center officials who received Ritacco's notice in 1985 said the problem "did not lie with us" because structural maintenance problems were designated to other University agencies; staff said they forwarded the notice to Facilities Maintenance at the time. However, earlier this year Carpenter officials did authorize placement of chicken-wire mesh around the site of the April accident when a tour group of small children visited the center...