Word: cracker
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...swimming within the frames of a pair of eyeglasses. I climb down to the bank for a better look and the fish crowd greedily around me, nudging their large snouts out of the water. "Feed them," a long-haired, young woman says to me, passing me a fistful of cracker crumbs. "It's good luck...
...will include toothpicks. While I am chopping, I take my first bite of hardtack, the unspoilable bread substance the corps took with them. It's whole wheat flour, salt, water and a drop of butter, baked very crisp. And it's delicious, like a health-food-store wheat cracker. It would go great with goat cheese or pate. This last comment doesn't endear me to my new friends...
...ways blacks do, it falls flat because it lacks authenticity. So, instead of copycatting black slang, it would make more sense for white would-be hipsters to demonstrate a little originality by calling themselves slurs that blacks have used to demean white people, such as cracker, honky or ofay. They could even give the epithets a positive spin through creative misspelling, referring to their all-white circle of friends as "my honkeez," "my crackuhs" or "my ofaze." I can already hear some folks moaning "Negro, please," as they read this, but it's no more absurd than using...
...sauntered over to grab a cracker, I noticed that she was chugging a plastic cup of white wine. I quickly scanned my eyes across her body: slightly shaggy hair, a floral-patterned dress, an olive green jacket, white socks and sneakers. She was alone...
...were in an art gallery that was celebrating the opening of a show of floral prints. Drinking as discreetly as possible in a relatively empty room, she rapidly refilled her cup. I do not believe that anyone else observed her in the act. Instead of picking up my cracker, I walked around the table as if I had intended to look at the prints near the window...