Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proud of a boyfriend that can stick a spoon up his nose and eat at the same time,"said Amato, a student at Penn State. "It's always a good ice-breaker at family dinners...
...some impressively elegant writing, which gives this book its true appeal. Of the love letters Nona receives, Nunez writes, "They were carried away not by love but by the vocabulary of love, the adjectives and verbs of love, one smooth golden word following another, like honey dripping from a spoon." For the most part, Nunez's prose flows just as fluidly...
...Ramada Hotel on Long Island has dwindled in recent days, those left have sharp tongues for investigators. John Felice, a relative of one victim, said the families believe that bodies are being left underwater while divers look for evidence for a criminal case. "We feel that we're being spoon-fed bodies, three or four a day ... to satisfy their needs," Felice said. But investigators maintained that the victims are still their first priority. One official from the National Transportation Safety Board said families have been shown videotapes from the ocean floor to help them understand the hostility and danger...
...list with St. Peter's Square, Union Square, Red Square, Trafalgar Square and Times Square; another ("World Class City. World Class Shopping") boasts sweeping staircases and wooden elevators, polished brass and a concierge to direct you to Nail Elite and Hair Artisans, the Civilized Traveller and the Silver Spoon Cafe. It must be said, however, that the same Buckhead hotel that enforces a dress code (jackets are "preferred" for men, even at breakfast) is the place where my $16 Payless shoes were stolen from the corridor...
...gear, Ray Ban sunglasses, PowerBars and Xerox), and in one ridiculous TV commercial, a deep-voiced announcer growls--as kettle drums roll, engines rumble and the screen flashes footage of Janet surging through the water--"She believes in controlled aggression!" Not really. What she really believes in is greasy-spoon breakfasts. But in mid-December, not quite three months before the U.S. team-selection trials, she tore ligaments in her left foot in a jogging accident. For several weeks she couldn't kick and had to train with her arms alone. Pushing off from the end of the pool when...