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...connection with Denmark; his own family had emigrated from Poland. But on the tops of his ice-cream cartons he printed a map of Scandinavia, with a star marking Copenhagen and an arrow swooping toward the star. Unwary buyers of this costly marvel (which sells now for $1.65 a pint and up) could have been forgiven for assuming that they were getting Prince Hamlet's own recipe from the court at Elsinore...
...Good Humors because they had chocolate shells. And I loved it when, on a summer night, my grandmother would give me 35? (I think it was 35?, my memory is as fragile as my teeth) and send me to the store where the druggist would personally pack a half-pint container with Breyers' best. Two flavors. Whatever my grandmother fancied, plus chocolate...
...stock of bread with salt water. The bread being our only dependence gave to us on the whole rather a cheerless prospect. We this day arranged our allowance of food and water, and gave it out for the first time. It consisted in one cake of biscuit and a pint of water to each man, for the 24 hours...
...beat Jamieson is D'Ellis Kincanon, 25. Part Chickasaw Indian and wiry as a heather bush, Kincanon can tap stone all day on a pint of yogurt. His face is ecstatic, like a Sufi mystic's, as he finishes off a pier stone. "Everything works in sacred harmony," he says, but adds that he has never worked under such competitive conditions. "Already we're doing senior apprentice work. Bambridge is pushing us for all we are worth...
...Maybe, some do. But there's that one last moment, and all of a sudden it's very tough, because you remember that there've been a lot of nice things, too. Even for Bobby Sands there'd been some nice things--a son, parents who loved him, a pint of Guinness now and again, a cause. But he killed himself the hardest way there is. He had to make his decision every second of the 66 days: around him men ate three times a day, and before long the food at Long Kesh prison must have looked like...