Word: supermarket
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...many rehabs, and subsequent relapses, and re-rehabs, and through so many medical crises (brain tumor, broken back), all chronicled by the tabloids, that she comes to seem, at last, to be a gloriously vulgar principle of unsinkability. Each brush with mortality makes her more immortal. Famous in the supermarket racks for being famous - famous for being fat, or for getting thinner, famous for death and resurrection...
...asked, do I keep my baby from getting expelled from nursery school? "Next time," he said, "offer an alternative. Teach a silly word instead, like baloney or hogwash. If a two-year-old says dagnabbit, people are bound to laugh." But when I tried this at the supermarket the next day, Clementine began to sing, "Dad's rabbit is an asko, asko, asko." No one in Condiments laughed. While we were not exactly asked to leave, I felt it wise to limit my purchases to 15 items to qualify for express checkout...
...played for the audience secretly taped meetings of top executives from ADM, the company that billed itself "The Supermarket to the World...
...Being a geeky engineer, I came home and put everything into a spreadsheet," says Phillips, 35, who had spent five years saving miles to fly Cindy and himself to Europe. With this deal, they could take their two daughters along, and so within days he had cleaned out every supermarket chain in the Sacramento area, unable to stop himself until he had bought practically enough pudding to fly business class to Mars. In the end, he had spent $3,000 on 12,150 cups of pudding, accumulating 1.25 million miles. (He also donated most of the pudding to charity, qualifying...
...teenager, you and Beau would drive to supermarket parking lots, stage a fight to attract a crowd and recite scenes from Catcher in the Rye. Mark David Chapman wasn't that messed...