Word: jell
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...June Reynolds agreed to buy Nabisco Brands, which makes scores of food products, including Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers. Three months later, Philip Morris announced that it would acquire General Foods, one of the largest U.S. food companies and a producer of such goods as Maxwell House coffee and Jell...
...Democrat alike, took to the floor last Thursday demanding that the Federal Government spend more money. It was a stirring spectacle, but not for Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, chairman of the Budget Committee, who opposed each measure with the wry frustration of a man attempting to juggle Jell-O. Norm Coleman, Republican of Minnesota, wanted to restore block grants for cities. "I could tell you story after story," he said about the glorious effects of federal dough. "If we start funding all the stories," Gregg responded, "we're going to run out of money." Ted Kennedy then rose...
...with local governmental agencies. The Cambridge Licensing Commission recently agreed to extend party hours for Harvard students to 2:00 a.m., in large part thanks to Corker’s lobbying efforts on students’ behalf. Far from dragging studious nerds away from their textbooks and feeding them Jell-O shots, Corker’s work is both more mundane and more valuable than the newsmedia would have their audiences believe...
Lots of us—after pledging to stop procrastinating, and to never again combine sake bombs and Jell-O shots—began 2005 with a resolution for our country: May the New Year be a better year for kids that have nowhere to go after school. May the New Year be a better year for working families that can’t afford health insurance. May the New Year be a better year for soldiers whose parents have to take out a loan to send them body armor in Iraq...
Alice cheerfully admits she's only a temporary fairy. She can use her wand to make herself disappear (by pushing the light switch) and can use fairy dust (a.k.a. sugar) to turn oatmeal into cake. But trickier feats, like turning her bath water into strawberry Jell-O or casting a spell so that her dog floats on the ceiling, she realizes, are reserved for permanent fairies, who go to advanced school and must pass a lot of tests. Alice is still at a level in which she suffers setbacks like accidentally turning her white dress into a red one (spilled...