Word: clamming
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...Clam chowder and the dependable Chickwich took backseats to shrimp showpieces Wednesday night, as four teams of Summer School students brought an improvisational flair to the cooking flame in the first-ever Annenberg “Iron Chef” competition...
...investigation into academic plagiarism published in December 2004, the Chronicle of Higher Education found that “the same professors who constantly bemoan their students’ lax attitudes toward plagiarism often clam up when it is their colleagues doing the copying...
...chicken. But not in 17th century Japan, where rabbits symbolized long life and virility and were a favored helmet motif. (Americans see an old man in the moon; Japanese saw the silhouette of a rabbit with mortar and pestle, pounding out the elixir of life.) Likewise, the clam is peaceable to us; but when one sees the magnificent 17th century helmet in this show, with the two halves of a clam shell in black lacquered leather rising from the crest like the wings of the Angel of Death, its power as an image of armor is undeniable...
...made our way out to right field, and up to the section they've erected out there atop the grandstand roof. There are tables, standing room, a big bar, a food court with everything from really good sausage sandwiches to really wonderful New England clam chowder. It's a small, elbow-to-elbow party out there, and on a cool day when the sun would bear down on right-center the whole game, it was the perfect place...
...This pre-conclave period has been like no other in modern history. Beyond the mass media attention, and the corresponding reaction of the Cardinals to clam up, there is the simple fact that the election of a Polish pope last time has opened the range of potential pontiffs to the whole world - every pope of the previous 455 years had been Italian, meaning that prognosticating elections meant sizing up the candidates from Italy, and perhaps dropping in a foreign papabile for good luck. Instead, over the past two weeks, just about every hypothesis from every corner of the globe...