Word: fritter
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...partly Clarkson’s persistence that helped the Crimson fritter away its second straight two-goal lead...
...affair with sea snails. Available in variations from salad to stew to chowder, the flesh of the conch (pronounced konk) is white, sweet and most closely reminiscent in flavor to clam. But in the Bahamas' own original fast food?ubiquitous across the archipelago?the mollusk is turned into a fritter. Made from ground conch meat (it's on the chewy side, so is often minced to tenderize it), onion, bell peppers and hot seasonings mixed with batter and deep fried, conch fritters have an almost indefinable,spicy-with-a-hint-of-the-ocean taste. A home-cooked staple, conch fritters...
...hunger and failing economies. He got a firsthand look at the awesome responsibility that that unique position imposes on those who lead." Rather than shrink from that burden, Cheney embraced it. He reasoned, says Gribbin, "Why not enhance and protect that responsibility? Why not make sure you don't fritter it away...
...statecraft. To treat the people of other nations as pawns in a geopolitical chess game is a damnable proposition. The U.S. enjoys unprecedented dominance in the economic and military spheres. We have witnessed a continual increase in the number of the world's democratic states. It is unconscionable to fritter away our moral capital by entering into Faustian bargains with thugs. Those pacts have yielded appalling results for Americans and the rest of the people of the world. VIJAY DANDAPANI New York City...
...Some in the army would like to hit the Palestinians harder. Others, who don't, fear that they'll end up having to do so, just because ineffective operations like last week's incursions fritter away the Palestinian awe for Israel's military might. By using tanks last week, Israeli officers say, the next time Israel goes into the Palestinian towns it'll have to do so with even more force. That's an ugly prospect: in the last week, 29 Palestinian civilians and 13 policemen died either in gunfights with Israeli soldiers or when they were caught by loose...