Word: conely
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...condition by hanging small beads over the noses of their children." The Maya also seemed to go in for shaping their children's skulls: they liked to flatten them (although this may have simply been the inadvertent result of strapping babies to cradle boards) or squeeze them into a cone. Some Mayanists speculate that the conehead effect was the result of trying to approximate the shape of an ear of corn...
...technique: Order a cone and eat it quickly before it melts all over you. Don't eat it too quickly, or you'll get a headache...
...father, a miner, to mark her arrival on the eve of St. Patrick's Day. Eventually she made the nickname legal, but somehow she was always more a Thelma than a Patricia, the kind of girl that in those days was called spunky. Life was marginal -- an ice cream cone was a special treat. When she was 13, her mother died of cancer; her father was claimed five years later by silicosis, the miners' scourge. She nursed them both...
...break the Herrell-Steve's price barrier, head down Cambridge Street to Inman Square, where a stop by Christina's Homemade Ice Cream shop will put you back in touch with the people. A kiddie cone at Christina's is about the same size as a single scoop at Herrell's, comes in more daring flavors, and is about 50 cents cheaper. Larger portions and sundaes are, well, LARGER...
Some friends fear the hoopla will prove impossible for West to resist. "You've got to understand one thing about Cornel," says a colleague. "There's a part of him that wants to be the next H.N.I.C. It's not just white folks holding him up." Says Cone: "One of the best ways to destroy someone is to expose and promote him. It's very hard to be critical of a system that makes a hero...