Word: stewing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...himself as the rightful ruler of the Arab world -- and he is embarked on a nuclear-weapons development program that the CIA says could be successful in three to five years. Thus the unstated third prong of Bush's strategy is actually to topple Saddam, perhaps by letting him stew long enough for domestic Iraqi discontent to reach new heights. "Let him off the hook now," says a White House aide, "and sooner or later he will be back, and we will be too -- back to square one. Drag this out, and maybe, just maybe, Iraqis will become...
...Texas, the Imperial Sweet (California) and the Maui (Hawaii). Never mind that some of these hybrids pack all the consistency and taste of an unripe cantaloupe; never mind that they may serve to decorate a salad but will do nothing to spice up a stew. The National Onion Association reports that, thanks largely to the new designer hybrids, consumers are no longer holding their noses and that U.S. consumption of onions has jumped 50% over the past ten years...
...hopes -- even expects -- that she will write about him, but learns to his chagrin that her next project will be about his relatives, particularly his rather drab mother. "My entire family lies gasping on the bank, waiting to be gutted and filleted," he mourns, "and turned into delicious fish-stew, while I'm tossed back into the river...
Another student adds, "The quality of the food is never that good. It seems like almost everyday there's some form of chicken. Its obvious that whatever was served the night before is transformed into the next day's entree. Beef tips one day, beef stew the next...
...Adler. "Rock 'n' roll was about attitude, rebellion, a big beat, sex and, sometimes, social comment. If that's what you're looking for now, you're going to find it here." The basic sound, propelled by a slamming polyrhythmic beat, is loud and raw. The lyrics, a raucous stew of street-corner bravado and racial boosterism, are often salted with profanity, and sometimes with demeaning remarks about whites, women and gays. The fact that they are delivered by young, self-consciously arrogant black men in a society where black youths make many whites uneasy doesn't help either...