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...sadness of many, Springfest 2000 lacked the traditional fried dough because CLC did not feel it was cost-effective...
...lips and flakes of bread collected at the bottom of my shirt. I have to be in the right mood for donuts, but the ciambella (sugared donut) at Campo is one exception. In the same family as the carnival zeppole, the ciambella lacks its fried, cratered crust. Instead, the dough is chewy inside and out. But the granulated sugar makes it another one to eat in private--you don't want anyone to see that you simply brush the crumbs to the floor...
Thesis-writing was a lonely experience--full of long and wasteful hours at the Law School library. Deprived of companionship and free time, I could not bear self-restraint in any other domain. I found chocolate-covered cookie-dough balls at Broadway Market. The nuggets of crunchy sugar eventually caused my throat to ache, but the suffering and the sweetness went hand-in-hand. The bag was usually emptied before my computer could start...
What pushes that small number of troops onto food stamps is a combination of little money and big families. Consider military pay. Certainly no one enlists for the dough. A raw recruit earns $930 a month, and even a sergeant with 10 years in uniform is paid less than $22,000 a year. Nearly half the members of the Army and Marine Corps, along with 26% of Navy and 18% of Air Force personnel, make less than $20,000. And this is where family size becomes key. Close to 60% of military families eligible for food stamps have six members...
...This time, Ray notices that a store next to a bank is up for rent and convinces his friends and Frenchy that they could tunnel into the bank's vault from behind the store. They buy the store under the cover of a cookie bakery, Frenchy churns out the dough, the boys tunnel in the back. Where they end up, of course, is entirely different than any of them planned...