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...five minutes practice, nearly everyone can finish a meal with chopsticks his first try. The food really tastes better, too, because the chopsticks, made of dry bamboo, leave no metallic taste. And since the food is placed on an individual bowl of rice from the communal bowl, various sauces soak the rice, leaving an exciting composite of tastes...
...looked pale and almost dazed with fatigue when he finally got back to Augusta, and he kept to his bed until noon the next day. Then, his temperature back to normal, he got up to soak up the sun and watch healthier golfers banging away...
Battle technique is simple soak the other guy. Fights have so far been confined indoors. Fighting outside is taboo, particularly when its raining (or snowing)--the idea is to bring the wet inside. Water bombs are out, since the more refined pistol shooters claim the bomb thrower has an unfair advantage...
...Worcester; Dutch tulip growers flew 250 bulbs to Worcester where they have been planted in the city common. The Vienna Choir Boys dedicated a lullaby to Worcester; and Louis Barthe, chef at Maxim's in Paris, invented a new dish called langue de boeuf à la Worcester (recipe: soak beef tongue for six days in bay leaves, then boil and serve with a heavy port wine sauce...
Carefully, artfully, the Prime Minister stressed the casual nature of it all. It just happened, he said, that he was on his way to a holiday in Jamaica to "soak up some sun and some warmth-naturally I looked in to pay my respects to the President and President-elect . . . It's just a meeting of old friends," he insisted. "We've met perhaps a hundred times before . . ." No, he couldn't say what he and Ike might talk about. "I've no idea. It's to be just a private, informal conversation between...