Word: snacking
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...Tasty, for example, is a most à propos selection for an early morning snack. Of course you've been there for coffee and smokes 'round midnight, but at four or five a.m., nothing can beat a grilled cheese and tomato. (Note that if you take sugar with your coffee, you're a freak, though the pleasant help there won't let you know that...
Husein Dzevair had just served customers at his snack stand in Zagreb, when he heard the incoming rockets. He and his girlfriend Stoja Babic dived to the floor of their flimsy kiosk as more than 20 cluster bombs burst around them, wounding three customers, shattering glass, and puncturing cars as if they were made of paper. Shrapnel tore branches from trees around a nearby sandbox, where a sandcastle somehow remained intact. "My first thought was 'We're finished,' " said Babic. "I feel very, very lucky...
Suitably accoutered, I began taking patrons' tickets at the door, working the snack bars, checking the temperature in the theaters, sweeping theaters after each showing and helping to clean the entire establishment after the day ended...
Porpcorn is not the only snack to stay away from. Hot dogs were put on the warmers at around 11 a.m., and if no one purchased them, they stayed there until closing time, at which point we would put them in Tupperware containers with soda water and ice and freeze them for the next day. If, now endowed with a leathery skin and the consistency of a Nerfball, they survived a second day unpurchased, they went back into the freezer, because, after all, the third day's the charm. What the condition of the dear frankfurters was after three days...
...former infantry captain who put the dazed Ambassador Martin on one of the last choppers out, climbed aboard one himself shortly after. His last look around the embassy contrasts with Herrington's: "Hundreds of Vietnamese had swarmed over the walls and were looting the warehouse, the offices, the snack bar. Some were driving embassy cars around and around in almost a maniacal frenzy. On the other side of the walls, crowds were shouting chants against the U.S., celebrating the imminent victory of the communists. In the distance, our jets were still flying cover, chased by tracer rounds." From...