Word: peanuts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...knee-jerk market reaction - down, down, down with a clamor - only presaged the peanut-gallery response to what may be seen as one of the least popular Fed moves in a long, long time. Because while the steep-sloped graph of Fed rate cuts this year now shows a distinct leveling off - right smack in the middle of the weakest economic quarter in a decade - nowhere in the 200-word accompanying statement was any hint of why Alan Greenspan chose June 27, 2001 to ease off on the throttle...
...Under the porch, we find a handful of motherless baby squirrels, alarmingly whitish and hairless, foetal and fumbling, wizened little old blind men. We put peanut butter out for them, and they eat it for a couple of days, but we have not seen them since Friday...
...TF’s mailbox the next. Reading period is a time to take stock, but often only in these backward terms. You learn how little you read for your Core class; you learn how much you enjoyed that chemistry lab, in retrospect; you learn how much peanut brittle one human being can consume on a Thursday afternoon before they burst. (I didn’t say everything you learned was valuable...
Sitting amid half-opened peanut butter jars and piles of bread, the protesters continually pitched their stories to anyone and everyone...
...wore on, trash accumulated on tables around the building and half-eaten cans of peanut butter and bags of bread covered most surfaces. Piles of fruit littered the main hallway...