Word: napkin
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...with drugs. The suspects noticed the officers and fled. The officers chased them, and a short struggle ensued. One suspect said he couldn’t breathe, and the officers removed a white paper they had observed in his mouth. The paper turned out to be a Dunkin Donuts napkin with ten plastic bags labeled “On Fire” which contained a brownish substance, later determined to be heroin...
...York Times!--and she almost quits after a month. She attends the 1968 Republican Convention as a Rockefeller volunteer and is astonished by the opulence of the Fontainebleu Hotel; she orders room service, and "I can still see the giant fresh peach that came wrapped in a napkin." In her way, Hillary Rodham--the awkward Midwestern grind, the Methodist too-gooder--is as much of an outsider as Bill Clinton. Her swoon is inevitable, her willful blindness to his flaws almost understandable. Almost...
...learned that we weren't allowed to pass resolutions at the conference. So on its final day, June 30, as dignitaries yammered at the podium, I joined other furious women at the two front lunch tables, passing along notes written on napkins. We were putting together the National Organization for Women under the noses of the people who wanted to put us off. I wrote on one napkin that NOW had "to take the actions needed to bring women into the mainstream of American society, now ... in fully equal partnership with men." As people rushed to catch planes, the founding...
...Quincy, you throw out your own napkin and toss your own silverware into a bucket o’ water to soak...
...squawking ducks bound for market, the green-tiled temples rising in the distance and the men blowing spheroids of snot straight onto the street one nostril at a time. "I thought, s---, I'm going to get stuck in this bloody ghost town forever," he says, hands tearing a napkin to shreds in his lap. "At that moment I thought: I have to get out of here...