Word: flapped
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...worried parent doesn't exempt you from the law. If you don't own up to the personal use of a state plane and pay for it, you come across like Evita, as if motherhood entitles you to skirt the rules. This lapse might not have caused such a flap if it had not played into an image already gelling that Swift thought she deserved special treatment. She'd been defiant when accused of using State House employees to babysit, and didn't apologize until reprimanded by an ethics committee that investigated. She was forced to pay a fine...
...Even beyond the statistical flap, however, the study suggests a serious drinking problem among American teens. The survey, conducted over two years, found that more than 5 million high school students (or 31 percent) binge drink at least once a month. And, for the first time ever, those numbers are equal for boys and girls. (Bingeing is defined as getting drunk repeatedly over the course of one or two days). Forty percent of ninth graders (male and female) admit to drinking at least occasionally, and 81 percent of all high school students have consumed alcohol at some point...
Before the catfish flap, Americans from several Southern states fought one another over the popular "no tears" onions known as Vidalia Sweets. Originally grown near the town of Vidalia, Ga., these onions soon were cultivated elsewhere from Vidalia onion seeds. A 1986 Georgia law says onion growers in only 20 of the state's 159 counties can label their produce Vidalia. Violators are fined by the state's commissioner of agriculture...
...Before the catfish flap, Americans from several Southern states fought one another over the popular "no tears" onions known as Vidalia Sweets. Originally grown near the town of Vidalia, Georgia, these onions soon were cultivated elsewhere from Vidalia onion seeds. A 1986 Georgia law says onion growers in only 20 of the state's 159 counties can label their produce Vidalia. Violators are fined by the state's commissioner of agriculture...
...What’s in it for you?” What follows are pithy paragraphs directed towards male and female readers explaining exactly what The Women’s Guide has to offer. However, what’s marketed in the prose on lovely lavender back flap is at odds with what’s inside of the book itself...