Word: jumbo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students may think the glossy brochures and jumbo shrimp are for their benefit, but the companies think they gain as much from these luxuries as the students...
...What's cooking?" asks a man exiting the store with a jumbo Formaggio Kitchen bag on each...
...spent the month of July at Camp Miniwanca in Michigan. Back then, I didn't have an angsty bone in my body. I'd sail on Stony Lake, pine away for Becca Cannon and nod along when Miniwanca staff tried to teach the camp's philosophy. The mumbo-jumbo about balancing the mental, physical, social and religious aspects of myself, living a "four fold life," only got between me and lanyard bracelet making. But recently, I've reconsidered. More than ever, I think I could use some mumbo and a pinch of jumbo to be somebody I like better...
Lena's Big Papa's--which specializes in jumbo-sized entrees including a two-foot lobster roll and a breakfast sandwich which can serve a family--is offering trophies to the six-person team that can eat the most three-pound burgers in 45 minutes...
Considering all the pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo that passes for nutritional advice these days, I can't help being enthusiastic when a really good guide based on solid research shows up in bookstores. And when the subject of that book is young children's nutritional needs--which are very different from those of adults--you can bet I'm going to recommend it to every parent I know. I'm talking about Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health (Bantam; $15.95) by Susan Roberts, a nutrition researcher at Tufts University in Boston, and Dr. Melvin Heyman, a pediatric gastroenterologist at the University...