Word: roasting
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...have to take exams"). One sits at a chair and looks out the window. Cambridge does not even have the grace to be covered with snow ("What if Harry Levin actually wrote the plays of Shakespeare?"). Sulphur-laden ice spreads like cancer over the Charles and Roast Beef Specials cost 60c ("If the Atlantic rose a few inches, Boston would be devastated and there wouldn't be any exams...
...reading by August 20th. But if I read 800 words a minute for seventeen hours...."). Cold fact asserts itself through sleep-drugged minds ("Gazelles cannot actually leap; they are merely very poor flyers"), until fact and fancy no longer collide but merge like an icy cancer spreading over a Roast Beef Special ("If the Atlantic rose and drowned all the gazelles there might not be any Harry Levin...
...forces of evil in the international economy have been trying to force Elsie's to lower the quality of its famous Roast Beef Special, which has sold for years at fifty cents...
Elsie's price change allowed Hazen's and Tommy's Lunch to raise their Roast Beef Specials to sixty cents. "Everyone had to sell them for fifty cents as long as Elsie's did," said George Earle, veteran grill-keeper at Tommy...
Unchanged ?. For years British schoolchildren have chanted, "Twelve pence make a shilling; 20 shillings make a pound," and the system they were straining to learn is as dismal as the chant. The mere job of figuring a 10% discount on a 3? 3s 3d roast beef could take a man to the edge of starvation. The system had at least one advantage: it had practically always been that way. The pound and penny first appeared about the time of King Offa in the 8th century. They were originally named for the Roman libra and denarius (hence the still used signs...