Word: ossa
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...also true that food can pose a threat in any locale. Recall President Ford's run-in with a tamale in San Antonio, Texas, when he tried to bite into it before removing the corn-husk wrapper. But New York is where they pile Pelion on Ossa--or kreplach on calzone. Democratic operatives still speak of the near disasters that occurred when first Robert Kennedy and then George McGovern sat down at kosher delicatessens and ordered a sandwich--and a glass of milk...
Cynthia Price Ossa, wife of the flight's pilot, Jose Ossa, is from Baton Rouge, La., and lives in Bogota with the couple's four children...
...plane took off from Bogota's El Dorado International Airport at 7:15 a.m., and Ossa told the tower at 7:18 a.m. that everything was normal, Duarte told The Associated Press. It crashed shortly afterward...
...until his complicity in the 1944 plot to kill Hitler ended his career, then despite his claim to anti-Nazism, was convicted as a war criminal in Belgium but, granted an amnesty, left the country with this bitter entry in the customs book: "Ingrata Belgia, non possidebis ossa mea";* of a heart attack; in Nassau, West Germany...
...flowing into the fisc; thus nominal tax rates must be higher; thus everyone not able to squeeze through the loophole must pay more in taxes: ergo, tax loopholes are a subject of general importance. Add to this the intricacy of the Internal Revenue Code and, to heap Pelion upon Ossa, the mind boggling complexities of the Regulations under that Code, and one has an area of expertise ripe for popularization...