Word: pod
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...Pod People...
Because Light emphasized the importance of diversity in first-year living arrangements, I decided to reconvene my freshman year roommates to take advantage one more time of the idyllic mosaic of freshman year housing. Well, actually, roommates is not the technical term. I lived in the pod on the 3rd floor of Hurlbut my freshman year so technically the women I reconvened were my podmates. But that’s a word we like to use sparingly...
...These pod people tend to value mates who share their love of outdoor leisure sports. One bride issued the ultimatum: “For me, whoever I dated had to ski. No ski, no me.” Another said, “Growing up, my sister and I always said we'd never marry anyone who couldn’t beat us in tennis.” In the best part of the section, Lois Smith Brady’s “Vows” column, grooms’ polo-playing abilities are regularly vaunted beyond belief...
Outside, the boys regaled a quickly swelling crowd with their rendition of “Wonderwall” until one of the “Pod People”—for the uninitiated, a person living in a single—screamed at them for interrupting her studying. The entire entryway may have been awake, but not everyone was amused...
Ultimately, Nestle settled on three aguas frescas: a simple strawberry, a more complicated tamarind drink (made from a tart, vanilla-bean-like pod) and an exceedingly complex horchata, made from rice, cinnamon and other spices. "Everyone has their own family recipe for horchata," says food developer Vida Leong. "We mixed and blended for weeks until we matched what we considered the gold standard." So far, their efforts are paying off. The three aguas frescas have been doing well in California and Arizona and will roll out around the country in the months to come...