Word: eater
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Western Europe. If the Soviets would remove their missiles pointed at Western Europe, NATO would remove the missiles in Western Europe. A President with a cowboy fixation got tough with the evil empire. His PR men changed the plan's name. "Two track" became "Zero Option," and the quiche-eater was pushed out of the spotlight...
...things in life go according to plan, but the cowboy and the quiche-eater hung tough and made their plan work. Of course, those who deserve the credit rarely get it. Those with the best...
Most enticing of all for the truly adventurous eater are the humble and succulent street snacks sold day and night in markets like those off Dongda Street in Xi'an. Here one can choose between the round, steamed, pleated dumplings known as jiaozi (or, in the larger size, baozi) that are filled with pork and aromatic hot broth, or the juicy, half-fried, half-steamed, pork- stuffed crescents called guotie. Breakfast purchased on Shanghai street corners can be the big snowy puffs of yeast buns filled with sweet red-bean paste. All day long there are noodles made of rice...
...parking meter. The human parallel was too disturbing for Bundy to dwell on it." But dwell on it he does: "Impersonally appraised, in terms of survival the two of them were pretty much at a standoff: the dog was better fleshed out, but Bundy was the heartier eater...
...satirist Karl Kraus, the architect Adolf Loos and a galaxy of painters from Gustav Klimt to Wassily Kandinsky. His most eccentric episode was that of the doll. In the spring of 1912 he fell violently in love with Alma Mahler, widow of the composer and a pretentious man-eater. Their affair lasted three years, and she dumped him in favor of the architect Walter Gropius soon after Kokoschka enlisted in the imperial dragoons to fight in the first World War. This, combined with the horrors of the trenches and the shock of being shot and bayoneted nearly to death, drove...