Word: toughed
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...thinking about making your own waffles to cope with the tough times ahead, you can find recipes for mashed-potato waffles, waffles with caviar, cornmeal waffle chips, something called a "waffle BLT" and even an alcoholic libation that calls for maple syrup and a waffle garnish. As for the devastating Eggo shortage of 2009, it helps to keep things in perspective. As Frank Dorsa's son, Richard, told the San Jose Mercury News, if his dad was still around he'd just "shake his head and say, 'This is silly...
...collapse. Gasparino is particularly good at capturing--via the profane, telling quote--the high-noon drama of the meltdown. When Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack tells Lehman boss Dick Fuld, "There are rumors that you guys are in trouble," Fuld, the "Gorilla of Wall Street," answers with tough-guy bravado, "It's bullshit." Lehman's stock price was soon in free fall...
...self-censor as he condemned contemporary artistic representations of beauty as “illusory and deceitful.” He went on to argue that such art “imprisons man within himself and further enslaves him, depriving him of hope and joy.” (Tough words for those of us who didn’t know we were enslaved in the first place: could the papal library stock Weber and Nietzsche?) The spleen was perhaps only to be expected from a bishop who, prior to donning the mitre, frequently provoked the press barb...
...They came out tough, and they had us on our heels for a long time,” Crimson captain Carl Ehrlich said. “We were just a little shocked...
With that game scheduled over Thanksgiving break, Harvard may have a tough time matching the 1,312 fans that were in attendance for the win over Monmouth. The Hawks brought a large contingent of their own to Cambridge, and the opposing sets of fans were going at each other for much of the game...