Word: morsel
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...aimed at pedophiles? Let the reader judge: the ad consisted of a mock postcard. On one side was a drawing of a bare-breasted little girl in a heart-shaped frame with the inscription "From Thailand with Love." The greeting on the back, signed by "Werner, Gunter, Fritzl, Morsel and Joe," read, "Got to close now. The tarts in the Bangkok Baby Club are waiting...
...That morsel is contained in chapter one, "The Sex Lives of the Great Economists," which draws a weird but engaging link between Keynes' bisexuality and his revolutionary economic theory...
Just as important is the raw material the body uses to produce the energy. Only a generation ago, when protein was the breakfast of champions, athletes were chowing down on steak and eggs. Now every morsel is evaluated. At the U.S. training center's cafeteria, each food item is labeled with its carbohydrate, protein and fat content. Large amounts of carbohydrates, as much as 60% to 70% of daily calories, are the mainstay of athletes' diets, because a storehouse of such foods helps maintain stamina. Nutritionists advise players to limit fat intake to 30% of calories, protein to about...
...they are able to forge new bonds with other hostages and often make sacrifices for the others' benefit. Says psychologist Julius Segal, a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health: "Prisoners have told me that the best thing you can do in captivity is share that last morsel of food. It brings you outside of yourself...
...Virginia state capitol was quite new and at the same time old; the strength of its political symbolism was meant to lie in its appeal to a precolonial past, that of the fresh Roman Republic, untainted as yet by Caesarism. Its model, said Jefferson, was the "best morsel of ancient architecture now remaining. It has obtained the approbation of fifteen or sixteen centuries, and is, therefore, preferable to any design which might be newly contrived...