Word: plate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz, " I had been deceived by the legends of Ivy League education. One professor offered his faux-zebra hide couch for me to sit on. The other, more avuncular professor actually offered me a plate of donuts. My discussions with them, and with the other students in my interview time slots, did not provoke panic or even mild anxiety...
...following evening, reunited in their snug Star City quarters, Larissa Tsibliyev watched mournfully as her husband slowly ladled turnip puree onto his dinner plate...
...factories, you see," said Vasily, as he looked for his cigarettes. "They don't work, or have insufficient supplies, or they ask for, excuse me, crazy prices." Abruptly calling off his search, Vasily got up to make tea. He switched on the hot plate, shorting it out and starting a small fire near the sink. As his wife rose to extinguish it, the cosmonaut grew ever more morose...
...copy of Pravda and started to read: "'Why fortune declared war on this crew is unclear, but something spooky is going on here.' What rubbish!" Vasily angrily wadded up the paper and tossed it out an open window, not noticing that one edge had caught fire from the hot plate. Determined now that he would indeed have tea, he filled the kettle and jammed it into the oven, extinguishing the pilot light with spillage from the spout...
...decided to drive their currency values down. ASEAN currencies have been going into tailspin against the dollar of late; Thailand, for one, had to be bailed out by the IMF to the tune of $16.7 billion. Still smarting, the Asian Tigers are screaming for Soros' head on a plate...