Word: spoons
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...foot-1 1/2 than dead, I reasoned. The seat also packs a parachute, set to open below 14,000 feet. Noting that Pike's Peak is approximately that height, I asked what would happen if I ejected there. "They'd be cleaning you up with a spoon," I was told. Hence, I was nervous. My prospective crewmates, however, were reassuring. Said one: "At least you won't be flying at night. In bad weather. With people trying to kill...
...ways, it can make the experience better,” Wayshak said. “You’re not spoon fed, and you have to work for everything...
...Nikita Khrushchev laughed and pointed. A few weeks later at the United Nations, a Philippine delegate gave a speech complaining about the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe. Khrushchev astonished the General Assembly by taking off his brown loafer and banging it on the table as if it were a spoon on an infant's high chair, except that in this case the banging had an apocalyptic implication...
...SPOON. Critically acclaimed indie rock band Spoon makes an appearance at the Middle East club as part of their spring tour 2003. Joining them are The Crooked Fingers and The Fiery Furnaces. Tuesday April 4 at 8 p.m. Tickets $12 advance available at the Middle East Box office or from ticketmaster (617) 931- 2000, $14 at the door, must be 18+. Middle East Club (downstairs), 472 Massachussetts...
...brutalized Saddam, the illiterate 10-year-old went to live with his maternal uncle Khairallah Talfah, an ardent nationalist and embittered former army officer who came out on the losing side during a 1941 struggle for power in Baghdad. It was then that Saddam's formative education began. Talfah spoon-fed the impressionable youth with his grudge against the West and his dreams of Arab glory...