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...like a hostess who forgets to serve her prized dessert so that afterward only she knows what the guests have missed, the icewomen left their aggressive skating in the locker room during the second period of both their contests, suffered two hapless losses, and settled for a disappointing sixth place...
Bostonians are known for their frozen dessert mania, but not enough of them have been screaming for ice cream to make selling it profitable...
AMERICANS VIEW environmental questions as the dessert course of policy making-- something to deal with once the real problems are out of the way. Hence, when we are busy aiming for military superiority, busy trying to halt the spread of godless Communism through Latin America, busy worrying about four dozen stenographers in Tehran, we have no energy left over to worry about thyroid cancer and the chance of meltdown. Especially if addressing the problems of nuclear power would mean short-run worsening of "real problems" like inflation and dependence on foreign energy supplies. Especially if it would mean less electricity...
...week's end he would be expected at the convocation of conservatives for the National Review's 25th anniversary dinner in the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Reagan would not show ?a mix-up in his calendar. Riled, his hosts would sing his praises over dessert nonetheless. He was the answer to their prayers, after all; the essential reason for the elegant, confident glow of the evening. Editor William F. Buckley Jr. would shine quietly, modestly. Others, like Publisher William Rusher, would exhort the assembled "to stamp out any remaining embers of liberalism." A war whoop...
...dessert one night, Cynthia B. ate a candy bar, two bags of cookies, an éclair, three sandwiches, crackers and dip, a jar of peanut butter and half a jar of jelly, raisins and berries, two slices of bread with cheese and mayonnaise, large pizza and four bowls of cereal. Then she made herself throw...