Word: opted
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...because it has the best apple flavor” as well as “a very nice color.” The drinks at Grafton are garnished with cherries or festive apple peel, but a sugar-rimmed glass can detract a little from the tartness. Bartenders at Grafton opt for a strong sour mix, making their drinks quite tart. The effect creates a taste reminiscent of bright green blowpops. Barry thinks the drink makes a particularly good aperitif—or after-dinner drink—as well as a good accompaniment to dessert...
...fans--especially Jewish fans, who embraced him with a fervor bordering on idolatry--Koufax could build a very profitable life out of his fame, yet he appears at maybe one autograph show a year, content to make a living instead of a killing. He has elected, writes Leavy, to "opt out of his celebrity...
...unhealthy, sugar-and-sodium-laden drink, avail other beverage choices and change the way students think about food. But the change in no way prevents students from bringing soda from home or from consuming soda on campus. Many students in the urban Los Angeles school district already opt to eat off campus at lunch, where an array of healthy and unhealthy food choices awaits them...
...Suicides was a triumph of strange suburban melancholy. It marked Eugenides as a novelist of voluptuous gifts. Middlesex is a sign he's not sure what to do with them. The narrator, Cal, is a hermaphrodite raised by unsuspecting parents as a girl, until puberty forces him (her?) to opt for manhood. But before Cal can tell his own intricate story, we get hundreds of pages about his parents and grandparents (who are brother and sister; it's a complicated clan), the burning of Smyrna, the Detroit riots of 1967 and the Greek-American embrace of the beckoning American scene...
...video, about 176 by 144 dots per inch, was a little fuzzy, but it was still fun seeing my pal as we talked about what we did over the weekend. One cool feature is a button labeled DETAIL/MOTION that let us opt for a clearer picture that got refreshed less frequently or a more fluid one that got a lot more blurry. We both opted for detail but noticed a time lag between our movements and their appearance onscreen. We liked the picture-in-picture feature that let each of us see what we looked like in a small image...