Word: plum
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...unofficial tradition was for graduating students and their parents to serve wine and plum cake at small parties in the students dorm rooms...
...local friend calls on the cell phone, and Raitt starts negotiating the return of three socks--green, plum and black--that she left at his house, where she did her laundry the day before. Why did she do her laundry there? "Because he has a washer-dryer," she says, like duh. Does she know the hotel has laundry service? "At $3 a sock!" she replies. "I'm Scottish and Quaker. Double frugal." After the band's post-concert meal, she tries to persuade the road manager to pack up the leftover tofu and brown rice. "Otherwise," she laments, "they...
...Denzel Washington didn't get a meaty leading-man romantic role until Spike Lee wrote one for him for his movie "Mo' Better Blues." Lee provided Washington with another plum role when he cast him as the lead in "Malcolm X." Another one of Washington's best roles came in "Mississippi Masala," a movie directed by an Indian director, Mira Nair. "Training Day" was directed by a black filmmaker, Antoine Fuqua...
...launched at Barnes & Noble in 2000 and become one of the chain's Top 10 sellers this year. Next up from Faby is National Trash!, a game in which players use sensationalistic words to create tabloid headlines to go with wacky photos. So when it's revealed that Professor Plum did it with the revolver in the study, a new generation of tabloid writers will be ready...
...founded Plum Village, a practice center and monastery in southwest France. He resides there when he is not on tour...