Word: plum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scramble for the new Administration's 3,000 appointed jobs has already reached a fever pitch -- as has the inevitable speculation about candidates for the plum posts. For Defense Secretary, there is talk of a three-way race between House Armed Services Committee chairman Les Aspin, Oklahoma Congressman Dave McCurdy and Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Sam Nunn. Retiring Colorado Senator Tim Wirth has been dubbed a possible Secretary of the Interior or Energy. Among the dozen or so names mentioned for Secretary of State, the leading candidate seems to be Warren Christopher, deputy secretary in the Carter Administration...
Harvard undergraduates will immediately recognize the true nature of Alfred Appel Jr.'s Art of Celebration--it is essentially a Literature and Arts B Core course on 20th-century modernism. And like good old Lit. & Arts B, the plum of the Core requirement, it is full of pretty pictures, music and references to movies and contemporary pop culture (FUN!). You'll enjoy yourself, pick up a good mouthful of cocktail party fodder, and, astonishingly, learn something as well...
...JOBS IN JOURNALISM GO, Grant McCool's was a plum assignment. Based in Hong Kong for the Reuters news service, McCool covered breaking news throughout east Asia, traveling to South Korea, China and Pakistan. But in 1989, after five hectic years, the native of Scotland was ready for a change. That's when his bosses transferred him to New York City to be an editor...
...sauce--which comes gratis with the pasta--is made from a distinguished brand of Italian tomato paste made of Pastine plum tomatoes...
...green meadows and pine forests around Kozarac and Prijedor, stands of poplars, apple and plum orchards, haystacks and fields of unharvested corn and sunflowers evoke a peaceful pastoral dream. But along the road to Prijedor, a burned-out house suddenly appears around a bend. Then more follow, and more, maybe a thousand in all, relics of two-story, white-washed villas with broken red tile roofs. Windows are smashed, walls blackened by smoke. There are no shrapnel and bullet holes recording some battle here; this is what "ethnic cleansing" looks like a day or even an hour later. Laundry still...