Word: spaghetti
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Many Harvard students secretly fear that the nature of football compels its participants to pour their cafeteria spaghetti into our book bags and humiliate us in front of half of our senior class...
...Beat Generation" was the label journalists slapped on a diverse group of writers, poets and spaghetti-and-Chianti bohemians who roosted in and around San Francisco's North Beach during the 1950s. Strictly speaking, there were not enough of them to qualify as a generation. But they had authentic roots in American tradition and produced a voice or two that spoke directly to the young and the restless -- even those who were dutifully preparing to join the conventional middle class...
With cinematic flourish, Dino De Laurentiis would jump up from his plate of spaghetti at the boardroom table, wave his cook aside and bolt into the company's kitchen. Nobody, he told his guests, could make cappuccino like the maestro himself! As he spoke, Hollywood's flashiest independent producer would secretly hit the "start" button on an ordinary cappuccino machine. He would then present his charmed visitors with cupfuls of "Dino's special cappuccino -- the best...
...order to get working telephones in every bedroom, we had to run wires under all the doors. That sounds easy; we'd heard the phrase "spaghetti thin" and assumed that telephone wire was at least as thin as spaghetti...
...also known as the Nimitz Freeway, collapsed when dozens of its concrete vertical support columns shattered during the violent shaking of the earthquake. Steel support rods inside the columns snapped like raw spaghetti under the multimillion-pound weight of the four-lane upper roadway. Some construction experts last week expressed outrage that the steel rods inside the columns had not been reinforced to help them withstand a powerful quake. Said Peter Lehrer, co-chairman of the Lehrer McGovern Bovis construction firm, which managed the restoration of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island: "There is no excuse for what happened...