Word: poured
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...high levels of endrin. But pregnant women and nursing mothers all over the state were enjoined not to eat waterfowl, and everyone else was told to down no more than one duck or a pound of goose a week-or, at most, six ducks a year. As for preparation: pour off the meat drippings, discard the skin, and don't stuff the duck...
...high interest rates and tumbling stock markets prices are the most obvious signs that something is awry. They cast a dark shadow on Reagan's rosy vision of the country's economic future, the one which investors would pour their dollars into a revitalized private sector and expand employment. Those investors are now shying from Reagan's bargain with them, betraying a lack of confidence in his maneuvers to fight inflations and restore a balanced budget. They have discovered what Reagan's opponents claimed long ago, that the arithmetic of supply-side economics just doesn...
...very strange and interesting man ... he's liable to do anything, really"), former Georgia Sen. Herman Talmadge (defeated last fall), and Billy Carter. Laughing, Oney remembers quoting Carter as saying, in a fit of irritation over Plains' influx of tourists, "The only solution for this town is to pour some gasoline on it, light a match, and burn it down." Carter's clan wasn't tickled with that story. When Oney called again several months later, Lillian Carter's secretary bluntly asked him: "You ain't dead yet?" Printing the Carter quote, Oney now acknowledges, "might've been too hard...
There were three results. The first was brilliant: The Unbearable Bassington, published in 1912, so Saki could demonstrate that he could write a novel and at the same time pour ashes upon the society he had long been part of. Says Langguth: "It could be the cry of an outsider whose thin lips ache from 40 years of smiling." The second result was his second (and last) novel, When William Came, an unsuccessful but percipient fantasy written in early 1913, about what England would be like under German occupation, and how a flabby society full of jokesters, hucksters and aesthetes...
...blood but bullet holes. Smith covered the actor's real skin with a false latex skin, putting both blood and tiny explosive discs in the space between. On cue the discs were detonated by means of copper wires, creating an authentic-looking bullet hole through which blood would pour...