Word: walnuts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dallas office had been decorated with some $14,000 worth of booty from drug raids: walnut china cabinets, brass table lamps, a 24-in. television, a VCR and stereo equipment. One special agent argued that the furnishings indeed had operational value: they enhanced the office. The GAO disagreed, and much of the property has been removed. The DEA, which manages more than $370 million in confiscated goods, has now issued stricter guidelines on such...
...fighter of this century who could knowledgeably declare, "I always wanted to be like John L. Sullivan." Through his managers' remarkable archives, including Tom Edison's 1894 kinetoscope of Gentleman Jim Corbett, Tyson is conversant with a day when boxers soaked their faces in brine and their hands in walnut juice. Fighting twice a month, at first in an Albany cracker box suitably called the Egg, Tyson has seemed to be of that...
...Orgasms. Rosie's Bakery and Dessert Shop (243 Hampshire) offers the chocolate kind for $1.50. Other goodies include walnut dream bars and congo bars, which cost $23-$29 per pan, so goahead and indulge your desires...
...latest examples of the utile are handsomely represented. The dark, roughtextured pottery of Karen Karnes is a reminder of why crafts appealed so deeply and directly in the antitech 1960s. An outsize salad bowl, meticulously turned from a single chunk of California black walnut by Bob Stocksdale, is notable for its revelation of the wood's grain. A fiddleback, hard-rock-maple- and-ebony rocking chair, a fortunate meeting of Copenhagen and Big Sur by California Master Craftsman Sam Maloof, invites the viewer to experience the best of contemporary artifacts while sitting down in comfort. Maloof, 70, bristles...
...Eaton. A poor choice. Though Eaton was a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, he had a vile temper, and his frugal wife apparently served the twelve students mackerel "with all their guts in them" and hasty pudding spiced with goat droppings. When Eaton finally attacked an assistant with a walnut club "big enough to have killed a horse," he was hauled into court, fined and fired. Harvard was shut down for a year...