Word: popcorns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coal mine near Quincy, Ill., and an ammunition depot in Hastings, Neb., were recently readied for the storage of surplus grain. A few Iowa farmers are even planning to burn corn instead of oil in their furnaces this winter, and government officials in Nebraska are promoting the use of popcorn as a packing material. Says one Cornhusker official: "Gotta get rid of the damn corn somehow...
...drinking without distraction, the Hong Kong offers an interesting variety of Polynesian drinks and international beers in a second-floor lounge. The house speciality is a salad bowl full of fruit juice, rum, and God knows what else. It comes equipped with long straws and plent of stale popcorn...
...More typical is the practice of distributing free drug samples to physicians, which the doctors then sell to patients for a profit. "It's the most effective incentive for overprescribing that I've seen," said Silverman. 'These people hand out toxic drugs as if they were popcorn...
Wednesday night I pulled up my chair in the Union with my bag of popcorn in hand and prepared to watch the Celtics take a 2-0 lead in their series with the 76ers I was the picture of confidence, the idea of a Celtics' loss never crossed my mind...
...relationships are painful, messy and usually disastrous, only to be pursued because "we need the eggs," everyone in the theater looks at his neighbor. Those in the company of a romantic interest ruefully admit how likely things are to end badly, those who don't have to share their popcorn wistfully wish they could...