Word: macadamia
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...confrontations with General Douglas MacArthur (whom he disliked and considered a racist). To a remarkable extent, he inoculated himself against the tiresome affectations that often afflict famous, high- achieving people. He didn't stand on formality (clerks simply called him "Judge"; he often called us "Knucklehead" and shared his macadamia nuts when our work pleased him). He spoke cordially to everyone, high and low, though his unpretentiousness sometimes tempted people to underestimate him. Every time I did, he caught me. Late in the court's term, I wrote a draft of an opinion in which, in an obscure footnote...
Then there is a favorite tourist spot a little farther along the road--the Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut factory. But don't expect to find John Hillerman, fending off several beautiful women as he munches away at his macadamia nuts...
What you will see is how the macadamia nuts are produced. You will even have a chance to sample some of the finished product for yourself. And, of course, the opportuninty to buy some to take home to your friends and relatives (even though they're also available at your local Stop 'n' Shop...
...those excesses, totaling $4.4 billion, culled from an 80-page list compiled by researchers in the White House Office of Management and Budget. Among the candidates: a $300,000 grant for grackle control in the Rio Grande Valley; $240,000 for a study of the damage done to macadamia nuts by rats; $1.4 million for a catfish farm in Stuttgart, Ark.; and -- in a special dig at the legislators -- $500,000 to bring leaders of emerging democracies to the U.S. to study the workings of Congress. Not even Reagan has the chutzpah to mention one particularly large chunk of pork...
...schooling) as well as something the preacher said. At one point in his sermon -- and here I must confess to an annoying lifelong lapse: I have trouble tracking sermons, and I could swear I heard someone say this one was taken from the Book of Macadamia Nuts -- the pastor said, "Now we shall all rise and sing hymn No. 508, Lead On, O Kinky Turtle." At that, my fellow parishioners fell to mumbling. The good reverend then blushed crimson and admitted that title stuck in his head because his own child called it that. Recovering his composure, to say nothing...