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...been married 23 years to a Washington judge; they have no children. For relaxation, she likes to cook "everything from Chinese shrimp to strawberry pies." Standing the heat in the kitchen will serve her well...
...color into the wood," says Acey Decy Equipment Co.'s Peter Ritter. The sound system is pitched to discourage any distracting conversation in the audience. Young women in long, sexy T shirts pass out ice-cream daiquiris. People sit clutching bid cards in one hand and plates of shrimp, ribs, tacos, fruit, salad in the other. In the aisles, dozens of bid spotters, dressed in implausible ice cream-hued tuxedos, gesture, shout, plead, cheer and jump...
During World War II, some 200 people, mostly black, lived in coastal Harris Neck, Ga., farming small plots, raising cows, pigs and chickens and fishing for oysters, shrimp and crabs. But in 1942 the Army began evicting the residents, paying them less than $10 an acre for their land, and built an emergency airbase. After the war, the 2,687 acres passed from one unit of Government to another; finally, in the early 1960s, the land was declared "surplus property" and turned into a federal haven for geese, ducks and deer. Apparently no one considered selling the land back...
...shrimp cocktail ($4.50) was better. Five medium-sized shrimp sitting atop a layer of fairly crisp lettuce served with a peppery sauce...
...sounds terrific that way. Many other chants have their island-English versions, to wit: The Twelve Days of Christmas, in which "my tutu [grannie] give to me one mynah bird in one papaya tree, two coconut, three dried squid, four flower lei, five fat pig, six hula lesson, seven shrimp as wimming, eight ukulele, nine pound of poi, ten can of beer, eleven missionary and twelve television...