Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...replied. "Then you haven't lived, young lady," he said. The talk turned to blueberries, and the 66-year-old commissioner inquired, "Can you bake a blueberry muffin?" Ferraro smiled tightly. "Sure can." Slight pause. "Can you?" Another pause. "Down here," drawled Ross, "the men don't cook." Later Ferraro gamely noted that the next time she visited Mississippi, she would bring blueberry muffins and Ross would treat her to catfish. "He probably never met a female vice-presidential candidate before," she commented afterward...
...family members have to live in one room. Their 150 sq. ft. of floor space does not provide enough for five beds; they solved that problem by raising the ceiling enough to create a small loft. Together with two other families, who also live in one room each, they cook in a communal kitchen downstairs. The three families share a public toilet about 80 ft. from the home...
...says. "That's right by his bed. No one else has the number." But it was in person that Apollonia popped the question.The toughie, the one that provoked lingering silence. Finally Prince had an answer for her. "Anything I can't do? Yeah. I can't cook." &151;By Jay Cocks. Reported by Denise Worrell/Los Angeles
...wait, of course, is to exert power. To wait is to be powerless. Consider one minor, almost subliminal form. The telephone rings. One picks up the receiver and hears a secretary say, "Please hold for Mr. Godot." One sits for perhaps five seconds, the blood pressure just beginning to cook up toward the red line, when Godot comes on the line with a hearty "How are ya?" and business proceeds and the moment passes, Mr. Godot having established that he is (subtly) in control, that his time is more precious than his callee's. (Incidentally, the only effective response...
Daria Walker's life is the picture of domestic bliss. A highly accomplished cook, she spends her days gracefully dishing up all manner of delicacies for her happy husband Ross and two happy daughters, growing herbs and flowers in her backyard in a wealthy Boston suburb, and lavishing love on her dog and two cats. Not just a housewife, Daria is a successful--even mildly famous--cookbook author, with a secretary, an agent, an editor, and adoring fans. In the opening scene of Fly Away Home, she returns from a grueling book promotion tour, aching to be home with...