Word: wadding
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...Habana Vieja, an architectural treasury of crumbling Spanish colonial mansions and palaces, is all anyone needs to fill half a day and requires only comfortable shoes and a wad of George Washingtons. While no one openly begs here and Cubans are almost universally polite, they're also hungry. If you ask directions or take a picture of an old woman in flowered headdress smoking a cigar, be prepared to fork over a dollar...
...return for that money, the Treasury gave the trust fund U.S. bonds--a wad of IOUs--and it's unfair to imply, as the commission does, that they have the value of, say, Confederate dollars. What the commissioners left out is that no one believes Uncle Sam will have trouble raising money to repay the bonds. Though the system will inevitably run aground without reform, most experts believe the Treasury will have ample surplus cash to fund retirees at least until 2025 and perhaps as late as 2038. "If someone implies that in 2016 we have to raise taxes...
...given the chance, stand naked on the field and sing a rendition of Hall & Oates' Maneater for a free bologna sandwich. Hence, when the carousel lights started blinking to signal the imminent arrival of their bags, the Mariners packed in shoulder to shoulder, each one dreaming of that juicy wad of 28 singles. "It sounds like chump change," said Perry, who doesn't make anywhere near $2.2 million, "but we can all use the money...
...believe, we were surprised by a late snowstorm, and when I couldn’t find my gum to go back on after Intermission, a fellow cast member (the Chef in the play) beckoned me outside, and there he’d built me a snow bunny, with a wad of pink bubble gum for a nose...
...believe, we were surprised by a late snowstorm, and when I couldn’t find my gum to go back on after Intermission, a fellow cast member (the Chef in the play) beckoned me outside, and there he’d built me a snow bunny, with a wad of pink bubble gum for a nose...