Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would say a greasy spoon...
...This is a case on how to run a greasy spoon?" Maister asks, writing...
...Southerner is called on and agrees that they are "greasy spoon, cheap...
...widespread custom, called cqo gio (Vietnamese for "scratch the wind"), is used for everything from colds to convulsions. A medicated oil or ointment is rubbed into the skin, which is then firmly stroked with a coin, comb or spoon until contusions appear. The practice seems harmless, says Pediatrician Gentry Yeatman of the Tacoma, Wash., Madigan Army Medical Center, who became familiar with the massage technique during a 1975 stint at a refugee camp in Indiantown Gap, Pa. In a report published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Yeatman warns that most American physicians are unfamiliar with...
...close, the process of generational amnesia and painful relearning seems wasteful; it leaves the countryside strewn with all kinds of debris - dead fathers surrounded by the or phan parricides who exuberantly did them in but do not even know yet how to use a spoon. However, as Albert Einstein once observed, "God is subtle, but he is not malicious...