Word: stews
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...most popular means of transportation. The largest store is run by the Falkland Islands Co., which owns more than 43% of the land and employs 240 workers. Mutton, delivered to homes twice a week, is still referred to as "the 365," meaning that people roast it and stew it and chew it 365 days a year. One happy result of the war is that the Falklanders decided to start a weekly newspaper, the Penguin News. Another welcome consequence: demand for colorful Falkland Islands stamps (printed in England) has grown so much that the government earned more last year from foreign...
...barbaric, but still better left undone. Executing Rutledge would be a waste, not so much of his diminished humanity, but of society's moral capital. The gunslinging heroes of corny adventure fiction had it right: there are guys not worth killing. Let Rutledge sit and stew in his 8-ft. by 5-ft. pen in Alabama. Forget...
Meanwhile O'Brien and officials in Washington stew over the harm the disputes have on the higher education-federal relation. The audit problem has "probably been the leading cause of damaging what was heretofore a fairly cordial relationship," Goldberg flatly states...
Menorca-style lobster stew-soup with tomatoes and green peppers. Casas includes a useful section on Spanish wines, which, though insufficiently well known to the rest of the world, have been enthusiastically embraced by Americans in recent years. Some, most notably the Rioja Reservas, can take their place with the world's choicest...
...inconceivable to us that Afghanistan could do any credit to the Soviet Union, let alone "Communism." The Afghans, we told each other, should be left to stew in their own juice. We could never control them, but neither could anyone else. We had our first taste of things to come in 1978. Daoud turned against the Communists who had helped him to power. Not only did he arrest the leaders of the Afghan Communist party, but he planned to execute them. The Afghan Communists were in a desperate position. They consulted the Soviet embassy in Kabul. Moscow quickly confirmed that...