Word: stew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...news to Leno. "I was never angry," he says. "I could never relate to comedians like Lenny Bruce." But beneath Leno's "What, me worry?" exterior, there does lurk a subterranean anger. "It's so stupid," he says, uttering this phrase perhaps 20 times a day, pronouncing the word "stew-pid." He sees a newspaper ad describing a knife as "perfect for a night out on the town." He shakes his head. "It's so stew-pid." Small-mindedness irks him; he can tolerate anything but intolerance. "It's so stew-pid. I mean, racism and prejudice are just...
Williamsburg--the Virginia colony's capital between 1699 and the Revolutionary War--was restored and reconstructed in the 1930s as a living museum of the 18th century--complete with actors in colonial garb, horse-drawn carriages and taverns serving such early American delicacies as rabbit stew...
...guest spots. "This is probably the only job in the world," the peninsula-jawed Leno wryly notes, "where you get the job and they go, 'O.K., good! You'll be starting . . . in a year.' " At least Leno knows the job will be his. Letterman, in his later slot, must stew. The other night, he made a mistake, then groused, "That's why I don't get 11:30!" He must be content with what he has: the best talk-show...
...major hazard" but contended that there was little immediate risk to healthy Kuwaitis from noxious gases, a finding that astounded some observers. Physicist Henry Kendall, chairman of the Union of Concerned Scientists, says the fires are burning with a poor 70% to 90% efficiency, guaranteeing that a stew of poisons is being shot into the atmosphere...
...women use cocaine. Moreover, crack has spurred the use of other drugs. Women who take cocaine are likely to use heroin to prolong a high, then tranquilizers and alcohol to come down. They may indulge in marijuana, PCP and amphetamines. As a result, many crack babies steep in a stew of drugs while in the womb...