Word: oyster
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...With its beauty pageant, parade, speed shucking contests and, of course, mountains of fresh oysters, the International Oyster Festival (galwayoysterfest.com) in Galway, Ireland, is four days of fun and feasting, guaranteed to satiate the appetites of even the most ardent bivalve lover. Now in its 51st year, the mouth-watering event runs from Sept. 22-25. Proceedings kick off with the Irish oyster opening championship, but the highlight for most visitors is the international shucking contest, when contestants from as far afield as Singapore and Estonia compete for the world title. Scandinavians have held the top spot in recent years...
...During the festival, make sure you visit local pubs, which come alive with DJs, folk groups and rock bands. And don't miss the gala ball and parade on Sept. 24. For oyster professionals and fans alike, it's a gleaming pearl in the social calendar...
They might not match the exotic connotations of the Octopus Card, used in Hong Kong, or the Oyster Card, used in London...
...will stand down before the next election. March 2004 Blair allegedly tells Brown that he will stand down in the fall. May 2004 Less than a week after Brown and Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott are said to discuss the succession in the car park of the Loch Fyne Oyster bar in Argyll, Scotland, Prescott says publicly that "[tectonic] plates appear to be moving" within the party. Summer 2004 Encouraged by loyalists in the Cabinet, as well as by the Tories' inability to capitalize in local and European elections under new leader Michael Howard, Blair allegedly changes his mind about...
...emotional route of Kerry's day passed Bush's somewhere halfway, traveling from wild hope to stunned despair. After one last dawn campaign visit, a triple-witching photo op on the Iowa-Wisconsin-Minnesota border, Kerry flew back to Boston for his ritual Election Day lunch at the Union Oyster House. Superstitious, he wore his lucky Red Sox cap, carried an Ohio buckeye in one pocket and a clover in the other and refused to let his speechwriters work on election-night speeches of any flavor. But he wasn't relying entirely on voodoo. He spent the afternoon doing satellite...