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...world except maybe the judges, has staged a damage-control clinic after being accused of a series of attitude crimes, including an alleged verbal assault on Mickey Mouse. And speaking of assault, Tonya Harding, the truck-driving heroine of that infamous gang of hockey pucks who conspired to conk Kerrigan on the knee--inadvertently adding a booster jet to skating's already soaring popularity--has, depending on the day, seemed just a fast buck away from wet-T-shirt contests, the roller derby or jail...
...bookie who operates out of his pocket on the street. To a Missouri youngster, Boston can be a marbles game in which the shooter need not knuckle down, but to a Pacific Northwest Indian, a Boston was any white American. And in a black ghetto like Watts or Harlem, conk means to straighten a person's hair with a lye solution, reports Cassidy, as well as carrying the more universal connotation of hitting "someone hard, esp on the head...
...when age or health concerns did defeat a presidential nominee. Back in 1956, with Dwight D. Eisenhower recuperating from a massive heart attack of the year before. Adlai E. Stevenson declared that "every piece of scientific evidence we have, every lesson of history and experience" indicated that Eisenhower would conk out by the end of a second term. Of course, he didn't--but Stevenson's campaign collapsed, in small part because his followers were jarred by his descent from classiness...
...include "goat water," a ragout of kid, or "mountain chicken," crisp, fried legs of bullfrog. A dish unique to Anguilla is a brochette marinated in pineapple juice and dark molasses; a Creole specialty of St. Barts is a casserole made with cassava, calalu and other tropical vegetables. Conch (pronounced conk) fritters and chowder are delicacies anywhere. The drinks are equally exotic. On Statia, a kind of tea called mauby is made from the bark of a tree; when mixed with rum, they say, it makes "an old man young and a young man younger." Sabans serve a rum-based liqueur...
...complex device called a catalytic converter, an afterburner that cleanses exhaust of nearly all carbon monoxides and hydrocarbons. Auto engineers who banked nearly all their antipollution hopes on that device now claim that by 1975 it will still have major defects−including a marked tendency to conk out long before it has endured the legally required 50,000 miles of service. Furthermore, the engineers contend, auto companies have never before introduced such a complicated and bug-prone piece of equipment on every new car in a single year. Any attempt to force them to do so with the catalyst...