Word: coconuts
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...replacement, Professor Scott Fraser, a more polished lecturer. One example, from a talk on "drive reduction" theories: "When they found a Japanese soldier recently who'd been living alone on a desert island for 29 years unaware World War II was over, he was going steady with a coconut tree he called Shirley...
...candy bar freak from way back. In fact, from so far back that I can't remember not desiring those delectable divinities--Milky Way, Three Musketeers, Snickers, Buns, Reese Peanut Butter Cups--anything coated in chocolate (excepting the coconut kind, of course)--was on my list. How I relished being given a nickel to take to the grocery. Certainly the choice was agonizing, and I'll admit, I occasionally chose some bubble gum and suckers over the candy bar, but that was only to save the savoring of the chocolate bar, to intensify my craving, to make myself remember that...
...last six miles I just knew it was going to be painful," he said during a weekend interview, munching on a piece of coconut. "I'd have to pretty much kill myself. But I'd never been to that point where I'd met that threshold of pain. After 21 miles at Virginia Beach I met that threshold...
...slender strips of sand skirting a great lagoon-"like a V written by a shaky hand," wrote one visitor-it was overrun by forbidding jungle growth, wild donkeys and giant land crabs that, according to the few hundred migratory workers who settled the island and harvested its coconut palms, would mass like an army to attack and devour the unwary stroller...
...Gunsmoke. Midgets walked the earth in those days-voicing the roles of children. Babies were enacted by women who specialized in gurgling noises. Fire was a sound-effects man crinkling cellophane; thunder was a copper sheet vigorously shaken; rain was birdseed falling on paper; a galloping horse was two coconut shells rhythmically handled...