Word: stubbed
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...antismoker who doesn't barbecue in his backyard I shall, upon request, stub my cigarette...
...Bicentennial World Series should belong to the people; there's no reason why the Tories have to get all the tickets. Tickets could be granted by a point system based on regular season attendance, with every bleacher stub counting ten points, right field grandstand eight, down to skyview and lower box seats which would be worth two points each. Or tickets could be awarded free to fans who had been rooting for the Red Sox the longest--applicants could be tested with such questions as, "Into which pitcher's head did catcher Bob Tillman throw a baseball in apptempting...
...save your immortal soul, maaaaaan, if you have one, is words . . . Sooner or later you're all going to jail . . . All you'll have is language, the great conserver . . . Compose in your head. The time will come when you won't even be allowed a stub of pencil and the back of an envelope." There is perhaps too much doomsday in that advice, but anyone watching the world now may want to think hypothetically of stashing away in his survival kit, along with the dried foods and bottled water, a copy of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary...
...with only modest success. As yet, the capital's sights include only a chapel, a restaurant and souvenir shop-cum-post office, where tourists can buy Hutt River T shirts ($4) and wall plaques ($5.30)-but no Hutt River ashtrays. Sniffs the protocol-conscious prince: "You never stub cigarettes on heraldry." Casley plans soon to station a sentry on the Hutt River border and require visitors to purchase visas for 53?. Although the prince will not divulge financial details, he concedes that an estimated $200,000 a year from tourism "could be about right...
...Luis Tiant throw his final warm-up pitch, you quickly realized that your afternoon would not be spent relaxing in the bleachers, nor would you view the game from the comfort of a box seat. No, you would be one of the many disgruntled spectators whose ticket stub read STANDING ROOM...