Word: purred
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...record of expenses, freedom from having to carry large amounts of cash, and a means of establishing credit quickly and easily. "Now it is up to consumers to make cash discounting work," says Consumers Union lawyer Paul Gewirtz. "Consumers have got to demand a discount and condition the pur chase on getting a discount...
...Washington Post, Columnist Tom Donnelly reported coming across The Watergate Cookbook, written, he said, by people "deep in the soup" and featuring recipes for "purée of scoundrel, hush-money puppies and tongue à la Martha." Donnelly was only kidding; there is no such cookbook - not yet. But Howard Mercer, an inventor, and Joe Sugarman, an advertising executive, have created a slick card game called " Watergate Scandal: a game of cover-up and deception for the whole family." The pious instructions read: "To win: nobody in the Watergate Scandal wins. There are just losers. Once the cards are dealt...
...White House lawn to accommodate more than 1,280 guests at 128 tables. White House aides found two aluminum canoes and filled them with crushed ice to serve as brobdingnagian coolers for the champagne. Chef Henry Haller borrowed a huge blender from the Pentagon to purée 90 quarts of strawberries for the dessert. Two hundred extra butlers were recruited to help serve a feast that began with suprême of seafood Neptune (crabmeat, tiny shrimps and scallops in sauce) served with hearts of palm and proceeded, with grateful disregard for the high price of meat, to roast...
...attention the returning P.O.W.s are receiving. It seems to me that the draftees who faced the war 24 hours every day on the ground are deserving of somewhat more than a veto of the VA hospital appropriations bill and a dismal employment rate. Why were we sneaked back into pur society? So our country can more easily forget the crimes we committed in its name...
...this man, this great man, was asking me for an answer. But I was too exuberant to think of one and launched into an account of my own present situation and accomplishments. It took me a moment to see and regret my stupidity, and the last few miles of pur ride together went by in an uneasy silence. All I could do was say goodbye to Jackie Robinson and thank him for the ride. LISTON POPE...