Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looking around for other work." Manuel Valdez, 43, and his wife Susie, 37, were close to losing Susie's Fish & Grill, which the couple sank their life savings into only five months before. Manuel, who had stopped by the cotton gin (owned by the Terrys, of course) for a cup of coffee and joined the lottery pool on a lark, says they could not have held out much longer. "This month I really didn't even want to come to work," he says. "I opened the checkbook, and we were down to our last $136." Another winner, Gene Terry...
...best funeral homes. At one point, he says, Loewen boasted how he maneuvered John Wright to sell the Wright & Ferguson Funeral Home by threatening to build a brand-new home in his territory. Loewen demonstrated how Wright's hand shook so much the coffee sloshed from his cup. "To brag about being able to intimidate somebody is not evidence of a gentlemanly sensibility," O'Keefe says. "It told me he's an arrogant guy, that he's a hard pusher...
...particularly informative on this movement, which Picasso and the slightly younger painter Georges Braque co-invented. "Henceforth," Richardson writes, "everything had to be tactile and palpable, not least space. Palpability made for reality, and it was the real rather than the realistic that Picasso was out to capture. A cup or a jug or a pair of binoculars should not be a copy of the real thing, it need not even look like the real thing; it simply had to be as real as the real thing...
...Filling the specimen cup at the doctor's office may not be worth the effort. A study finds that many common LAB TESTS performed during regular checkups--urinalysis, blood-count measures--result in a change of treatment only 1% to 3% of the time...
...sweat and tears soccer, finally being eliminated in a valiant effort in the Freshman Intramural (IM) soccer semi-final. The fields behind the Palmer Dixon courts were grey and the sidelines empty, but the shouts and celebrations after a well-placed goal could have punctuated a World Cup game or the Major Leauge Soccer championship in Foxboro last month. Yes, Sunday afternoon is a perfect time for IMs, because for some of us it's not a hobby or an extracurricular activity--it's a religious experience...