Word: hashing
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...butt of international ridicule for the past seven years, really delivered. We staged a successful Olympic Games - something the rest of the planet was sure we couldn't do. Practically from the moment Athens was named as the venue, in 1997, folks began predicting we'd make a hash of it. (How many times did headline writers trot out groaners like "big fat Greek flop"?) But we defied the Cassandras. The graceful canopy that construction crews hauled over the main Olympic stadium just in time didn't come crashing down. The flashlights we tucked in our bags for fear...
...foreign lilts and signs here are as diverse as the delightful scents that spill out of Edgware Road’s fruity shishas, the hash pipes of Notting Hill, the tandooris of Tower Hamlet, the boerewor shops of Southfields. The world to which London extended itself for centuries has flocked to London. In 1888, Henry James wrote that “It is a real stroke of luck for a particular country that the capital of the human race happens to be British. Surely every other people would have it theirs if they could.” The British still...
...drama to what has become a meaningless exercise. A person nominated for President would not follow the current custom of naming the vice-presidential candidate before the convention. Instead, the candidate would present delegates with a short list of three potential running mates and let the party members hash out who should be chosen through the democratic process. RICHARD JACOBI Belton, Texas...
Sheila King ’54 recalled one regular who had particularly bizarre eating habits: “corn beef hash with an egg and a scoop of chocolate ice cream...
Many Americans figure they will let the nutritionists hash all this out--and take all the time you please, thank you. In the meantime, as Saltzman discovered, there are pounds to drop and profits to crop. It seems as if everyone is giving the low-carb culture a whirl. Whoopi Goldberg does it. So do Jennifer Aniston and Bill Clinton. What's good enough for the stars is, of course, appealing to the rest of us. Some 26 million Americans are on a hard-core low-carb diet right now. And 70 million more limit their carb intake without formally...