Word: ducking
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...have every area of our lives settled,” Woodruff says. “You know, everyone’s got to leave here with the job, the signing bonus, the apartment, the five-year plan, the 10-year plan…Everyone wants to have every duck in a row. Religion may further people’s pursuit of ‘What am I going to believe? What is going to be the truth that guides my life...
Gone is the era when a meal in a department store meant a scoop of chicken salad on a plastic tray in a room reminiscent of your grandmother's conservatory. These days, shoppers at Selfridges in London are feasting on roast duck, salmon ravioli and pumpkin chili cakes in the store's Premier restaurant, which has a nice view over bustling Oxford Street. At Harrods, the clientele in the Georgian Restaurant is tucking into terrine of foie gras with cèpes, fillet of red mullet and wild game pudding whipped up by a chef who used to work...
This time last year planning for University land in Allston was advancing at a snail’s pace. Neil L. Rudenstine was the lame-duck president and president-elect Lawrence H. Summers was still a passive listener making his first rounds of introduction...
With what I've got here, I can do anything I want. In a small kitchen, you make things do double or even triple duty. If you're making two-way duck, let's say, and you don't have a roasting pan, you use a frying pan. If you don't have a quiche pan, you can always manufacture one out of foil or make the pie free-form...
...death the killer delivers is gruesome. The poison?a few spoonfuls of purple crystal granules of carbofuran, an insecticide, mixed with chicken or duck meat?acts fast, attacking the nervous system much like sarin gas. In minutes, the dogs are drooling and their muscles begin to twitch. Within an hour, they are violently convulsing. If the poison cannot be expunged, they die of shock and respiratory failure. "They are absolutely frantic," says veterinarian Lloyd Kenda. "I'd rather never see another case again...