Word: nut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Smith puts away his students' charming first efforts and goes to work, devoting two or three weeks to each continent or land mass. Africa, hands down the toughest nut, warrants four weeks. "It's got a lot of little countries and weird names," explains Sara Stonberg. There are no tricks to this process, which is the point. Students spend two hours in class each week and another couple of hours on homework, learning the old-fashioned way. They memorize names and shapes, and draw over and over the outlines of countries and land masses (the northern edge of the Soviet...
Schluntz, who described himself as "a football nut," said he was equally as excited about his new venture into college coaching...
Pity the weight-conscious health nut who craves a peanut butter sandwich: Skippy peanut butter claims to have "less sugar than other leading national brands," then fails to list how much it has. Wonder Light white bread trumpets "no cholesterol," but few breads these days have cholesterol, not even Taystee Butter Top wheat bread or Thomas' English muffins -- and neither of them makes such claims. And how can Colombo Nonfat Lite Yoghurt be nonfat when its label lists "less than...
...because I like to stay in shape. I am a rower, not an aerobics nut. I am a member of Harvard crew, not of some fitness club that happens to emphasize crew-related exercises...
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...