Word: stiffs
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...appreciate its family-home feel. You won't encounter the smugness sometimes found in a British country-house hotel, and the traditional decor employs florals without falling victim to chintz. If, after a day of bracing fell climbing or water sports you find yourself in need of a stiff drink, have a predinner cocktail by the open-hearth fire. Such canapés as foie gras ballotine and quail egg with truffle mayo are exquisite teasers to the local-fare feast of up to eight courses. Standouts include creamed crab, potato and tomato mille-feuilles with lime...
...have great size, yet has proved incredibly durable, not missing a start due to injury in his collegiate career. These days, he practically limps back to the huddle, hobbles to the sidelines, then breaks off a run of 25 yards where he dashes past a safety and stiff-arms a linebacker. It evokes Jim Brown, who used a similar method of self-preservation, or, more intriguingly, psychology...
...present U.S. Administration's uninformed and shortsighted policies. My hope for the future lies in the goals, purposes and accomplishments of the U.N. Peg Maher Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S. I applaud Krauthammer's realistic take on the North Korean issue - that a "dynamic, capitalist, reunited Korea" would be stiff competition for a China that aspires to impose its will on East Asia, hence Beijing keeps its unruly neighbor alive and refuses to support tough U.N. sanctions against North Korea. Let's hope for the sake of the Korean people that China does not succeed in promoting its self-interests...
...applaud Krauthammer's realistic take on the North Korean issue--that a "dynamic, capitalist, reunited Korea" would be stiff competition for a China that aspires to impose its will on East Asia, hence Beijing keeps its unruly neighbor alive and refuses to support tough U.N. sanctions against North Korea. Let's hope for the sake of the Korean people that China does not succeed in promoting its self-interests and that there may be a reunited Korea before our lives are over...
With Kazakhstan, Cohen has found the perfect fall guy; a nation so unknown that no one in the Western world minds his jokes, and just stiff enough themselves that they respond to his satire with lawsuits and press releases, only further fueling Cohen’s hype machine...