Word: potted
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...rest of Switzerland. It was the last territory to become a canton of the Swiss Confederation, in 1815, after centuries of independence. Its patriotic holiday, known as the Escalade, commemorates the December night in 1602 when an old woman roused and saved the sleeping city by throwing a pot of soup at the invading troops of the Duke of Savoy. Geneva sheltered both the ascetic Calvin and the libertine Voltaire. Lenin conspired here, and so did the anarchists Bakunin and Kropotkin...
...constitutions to operate with deficits, ended their last fiscal years with a total surplus of $6.3 billion. The Administration has used this contrast as its main argument for ending the 13-year-old program of general revenue sharing, under which 39,218 cities and counties last year split a pot of $4.5 billion in unrestricted federal grants. As Baker told the Senate Appropriations Committee, "Stated simply, we have no revenue to share...
Then, when Vietnamese forces invaded Pol Pot's Cambodia in 1979. Chorn escaped to the jungle and ultimately reached a Thai refugee camp. An American adopted Chorn and eight other Cambodian refugees bringing them...
Chorn and Hong began their account with the 1975 overthrow of King Sihanouk by Pol Pot's Marxist Khmer Rouge forces. Cities were emptied as intellectuals, lighted skinned Cambodians, and monks were herded into farming camps where they were worked to death, they said...
...helping of abuse last week at Harvard's annual Hasty Pudding Theatricals awards. After the requisite raucous parade through Harvard Square, featuring jugglers and Pudding actors in drag ("We're on the cutting edge of androgyny," boasted one), the pop singer-turned-actress was presented with the traditional pudding pot and ribbed about her wiry physique (she was given an oversize bra), her unorthodox attire and her one-word name (suggested new last names: "Cropper" or "of the Pot"). Sallied Cher: "I don't know what the other recipients did with their pots, but I'm going to make...