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...work of 20, a shrug or grimace the work of ten. It ranges from the simple ("I no like that") to the colorfully complex ("You stay go, I stay come," meaning "You go ahead, I'll join you later"). When Hawaiian idiom is mixed with pidgin grammar, the result takes an expert to fathom. Sample: "He no got wahine. She too much pilikia. Make him huhu." ("He has no girl any more. She was too much trouble. She made...
...Bourbon Stockyards, he likes to call it "a stinking good bank"). Sanders works hard at both jobs and feels they go together fine. "Because I live in the same world my people do, I am closer to them," he says. "And I'm a better banker as the result of my preaching...
...Bottle Caps. The old man, the late King C. Gillette, whose mustachioed countenance is one of the company's trademarks, was once a bottle-cap salesman. While shaving one day in 1895, he tried to think of some invention as indispensable, disposable, and cheap as a bottle cap. Result: the first idea for a safety razor with a throw-away blade...
...state universities in "an unstoppable wave" will result from GI Bill-stimulated demand for higher education if the guess of University of California President Robert Gordon Sproul turns out correctly...
...turn away hundreds each year," said Packard. "As a result, Harvard students may be able to write well, but they cannot speak well...