Word: dares
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...responsibility to get the funding they need to produce adequate meals for us,” griped one Matherite. Maybe we’re exaggerating a little. Ignoring that particular lunch’s carb-heavy options, it was possible to make a nutritious and—dare I say it?—tasty lunch out of soup and a spinach salad topped with garlic kale and Tuscan chickpeas. Sounds almost gourmet. But our rumblings, exaggerated though they may be, stem from a legitimate source. Something is going on under the mountain of starch...
...functions, that you can read all of the notes, cereal boxes, and papers,” she says. In a photograph of her refrigerator, which is absent from the exhibit but is included in the exhibition catalogue, the appliance bears a magazine pullout entitled, “Do I Dare to Eat a Strawberry?” A jar of Colon Cleanse sits on top of the fridge next to a box of Cheerios.Calling herself a “technophobe,” Davey says she is old-fashioned in an era when digital photography and manipulation runs rampant...
...misfortune lies is this: no matter how talented and capable an administrator Hammonds is, doubts over the initial appointment will remain—even if only one or two provocateurs dare to voice them aloud...
Given the unprecedented military and media operation needed to create this simulacrum of normality, the prince's assessment was just about right. The Windsors don't do normal. Their function is symbolic; the most popular and effective member of the family, the Queen, is remote, dare one say regal, despite her relentless diary of public engagements. It was Harry's mother Diana, a royal-by-marriage, who engaged with ordinary people in emotionally intelligent ways and encouraged her sons to strive for a kind of über-normality. Yet as she discovered, it's hard to keep it real...
...recognized that flashing is difficult to stop. Indecent exposure, said Pasquarello, is not common in Cambridge. But according to Catalano, HUPD deals with a few exposure incidents each year. “Sometimes we don’t know if someone does it because of alcohol, because of a dare, or because of some kind of perverted reason,” Pasquarello said. The offender, if caught, can face a charge for open and gross lewdness depending upon the severity of exposure, said Pasquarello. Jail time is also a possibility, and the offender’s criminal record...