Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ticket could be a fatal liability. Jesse Jackson is nominally on the list, largely because he has demanded to be there and has enough clout that he must be. Jackson is the only would-be to get star treatment. While the others interviewed were lucky to get a cup of coffee, Jackson was treated to the four basic food groups and an unassuming California Chablis. After the dinner-cum-interview, Jackson would only comment, "Balanced meal, well cooked...
...from the stands. The vendor argued that nothing could have been done to prevent the injury. Throughout the trial, Lipsig kept on his desk a mysterious brown bag that tantalized the jurors. Not until his final argument did he open the bag to dramatically take from it a paper cup. "This is what they could have done to protect my client," he announced. He won the case. Ever since, chastened stadium concessionaires nationwide have sold beverages in paper cups...
...good day. Just as I finished a second cup of coffee, an editor called me, requesting some fixes on a story. As we discussed the changes, my mind began to transmogrify. His familiar visage took on the horrible features of Tezcatlipoca, Mexico's evil magician-god with blazing eyes and slobbering tongue. If one encounters this dreadful apparition, legend has it, one's only hope is to thrust a hand into the god's bloody chest cavity and seize its palpitating heart...
...Guess what? I just bought a set of Topps bubble-gum World Cup cards. I finally got the entire Saudi Arabian team...
...trade you two Colombian goalie cards and an official World Cup backscratcher for one Saudi...