Word: raisin
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...Font's nylon). Paradoxically, some of the most successful trademarks have been lost because of their very popularity; they became so firmly entrenched in the language that no single company could still legitimately claim ownership. Over the years, such casualties have included mimeograph, linoleum, cellophane, elevator, escalator, raisin bran and cola...
...supposed to react to seeing my planet blow up. You know, there go my parents, my record collection, everything. What do I see? A hand waving to tell me where to look." Adds Mark Hamill, 25, who plays Luke Skywalker: "Acting in this movie, I felt like a raisin in a gigantic fruit salad. And I didn't even know who the coconuts or cantaloupes were...
...course, this job isn't all cinnamon and raisin bagels and cream cheese. It requires someone who's on top of the current scene, who's aware of students' problems ("Excuse me, sir, but I have an hourly on Thursday. Can you tell the coach to get me out of it?"), who, most importantly, can talk with other administrators without falling asleep...
...ranchers and farmers want Jimmy Carter's Administration to help in some areas, they emphatically want it to leave them alone in others. Outside Del Rey. Calif.. Harold Shidan, 57, a stocky raisin grower, faulted Carter for endorsing the state's unsuccessful attempt to settle the three-way labor battle between the growers, the Teamsters Union and Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers. The proposal that Carter supported would have permitted union organizers to campaign on growers' property and would have mandated secret elections for union representation. Shidan griped that he has had to pull...
...Keeffe. She describes her surroundings in Abiquiu, N. Mex., recalls the '20s when D.H. Lawrence was underfoot. Her voice is laconic, styleless, arrow straight to the point. About one of her pictures of bleached pelvic bones, she notes: "I was the sort of child that ate around the raisin on the cookie and ate around the hole in the doughnut. So probably-not having changed much -when I started painting pelvic bones I was most interested in the hole in the bone...