Word: plateful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Professor of Government Stephen D. Ansolabehere, FM heard that you were an elections expert for CBS on election night. How did you feel when Barack Obama was declared the winner? “We all stopped what we were doing, but we had a full plate of other races to call at CBS, so I was trying not to get too distracted because I had to deal with the senate and governor races and the remaining presidential races. At CBS, we knew that [the election] was going to turn to Obama at the 11 o’clock hour. When...
...most prevalent squash at Harvard these days has nothing to do with a racket or a ball and is more likely to be found on a plate than on the court. A glance at the Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) menu for this week exemplifies the many variations of squash available to diners: maple roasted butternut squash, candy roaster squash, festival squash with cinnamon, spaghetti squash, and more. Answering students’ bewilderment as to why this vegetable is suddenly a staple in the dining hall, the HUDS blog says, “Why so much squash? It?...
...dependable is the word. The pig does not evoke a sense of grandeur. It is an everyday animal. And its meat is not generally considered to be glamorous or sexy. Think sexy meat and it's a big juicy fillet or beef winking up at you from the plate, next to it a decent bottle of Bordeaux. Think healthy meat, if you must, and it's a small portion of free-range chicken breast...Whatever your criterion, there's always something outgunning pork for the top spot: aristocratic meat (venison, swan), cruel meat (dog, suckling anything), underrated (rabbit), overrated (veal...
...table, and let the eight of us (two couldn’t make it) stand there blocking foot traffic for half an hour before seating us not at a long table, but at adjacent booths. We were not happy.2. Dress for the tropics. Every table has a heating plate in the middle to keep the broth simmering. The restaurant felt like the steam room at the neighborhood gym. It smelled, however, like wet dog.3. Don’t expect the full menu. By the time we sat down, everyone was sweaty and disgruntled, but a look over the menu livened...
...that serious. I broke some ribs and punctured a lung one time and needed to be back riding in about two weeks. I broke both bones in my lower leg one time and was back to competition in two and a half weeks. I had 11 screws and a plate put in my leg. But never anything that's been real life-threatening...