Word: devours
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Alas, the food is no better than the service. Customers seeking to experience Southern comfort food may devour tasty collard greens whose bitter aftertaste sadly recalls the disappointments of the night before. Unfortunately, it’s all downhill from there. The bread pudding is certainly creamy—but should bread pudding really be creamy? Tepid Eggs Florentine fester atop an extinguished flame, providing a daunting challenge to those who may still feel queasy. And, at last reckoning, it did appear that Florence was in Italy. The appearance of Eggs Florentine at the buffet can thus only be explained...
...Americas University will have a particularly broad audience. An incredibly detailed and deeply researched look at the players and issues of the last 70 years of Harvard history, the book will certainly appeal to the core of Harvard insider-elites, institutional historians and over-eager student journalists who hungrily devour every line of copy or print that references fair Harvard. The authors are perfect for this audience; he is Spector Professor of History at Brandeis, while she is a Harvard insider in the flesh, a former associate dean for academic affairs at Harvards Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...modern House of Representatives, though, has a nasty tendency to devour its leader. The Speaker's gavel has changed hands four times in the past 14 years. Tip O'Neill was the last Speaker to leave without being ousted by scandal or electoral defeat. Denny Hastert may hope for a long reign in the top job. But if the economy keeps going south, Hastert, the former high school economics teacher, may be undone by the subject he once taught...
RENT-A-GOAT With 3,000 acres in Northern California burning uncontrollably, residents of the West are in need of a new way to mitigate the danger of fire. It could come in the form of a farm animal. Many landowners have resorted to renting power-grazing goats to devour weeds and underbrush, thus improving soil quality and cutting down the risk of devastating brush fires. The nimble animals easily get into rocky, hilly and heavily forested terrain that machines can't navigate. And as a bonus, they'll even leave behind a hearty supply of "fertilizer...
...together,” “Firefly come back to me / Make the night as bright as day / I’ll be looking out for you / Tell me that you’re lonely too” (my worldly friend Nia points out that female fireflies often devour male fireflies if they're not suitable for mating)…The new Tennis Magazine cover story on Anna Kournikova is a wonderful history of a not-so-wonderful player. If you’re befuddled as to what all the fuss is about, get your Anna-tude primer...