Word: shrimps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Boyd, who once chronicled the ins and outs of cattle smuggling and shrimp boats for a small paper deep in Louisiana's Cajun country, rose quickly in Washington to become bureau chief...
Boyd, who once chronicled the ins and outs of cattle smuggling and shrimp boats for a small paper deep in Louisiana's Cajun country, rose quickly in Washington to become bureau chief...
...senior year all over again. His trip down to Baltimore to get surgery, my pretend excuse of going there too--"Really, I'm visiting Hopkins and Georgetown." My father lying in bed, looking pretty good for someone being invaded by tubes and catheters, my nervous mother, all the shrimp and barbecue we ate down by the waterfront when my father was hungry again. I had thought that it was all over. The doctor had worked his magic on my surgeon-father so unaccustomed to playing the victim on the operating table rather than the needle-and-knife bearer...
...senior year all over again. His trip down to Baltimore to get surgery, my pretend excuse for going there too--"Really, I'm visiting Hopkins and Georgetown." My father lying in bed, looking pretty good for someone being invaded by tubes and catheters, my nervous mother, all the shrimp and barbecue we ate down by the waterfront when my father was hungry again. I had thought that it was all over. The doctor had worked his magic on my surgeon-father so unaccustomed to playing the victim on the operating table rather than the needle-and-knife-bearer...
...construction-site manager at Korea's giant conglomerate Samsung, Chung Hwan Oak was used to giving orders, not taking them. So making sales calls for his new catering business was hard on his pride. After bowing deeply, Chung, 49, would pitch his hot-pot lunches--steaming vegetables with shrimp and fiery pepper sauce--then explain how he had lost his Samsung job. Often people slammed the door in his face. Those who listened didn't offer him a chair. The frosty treatment stung, but Chung knew that in status-conscious Korea, Samsung is at the top of the job heap...