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chewing gum
chewing gum confection consisting usually of chicle , flavorings, and corn syrup and sugar (or artificial sweeteners). Prehistoric people are believed to have chewed resins. Spruce resin was chewed as a thirst quencher by Native Americans, from whom pioneers adopted the custom. Refined paraffin... Read more |
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mutton
mutton flesh of mature sheep prepared as food (as opposed to the flesh of young sheep, which is known as lamb). Mutton is deep red with firm, white fat. In Middle Eastern countries it is a staple meat, but in the West, with the exception of Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand, mutton and lamb... Read more |
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Ground beef
HAMBURGER HAMBURGER. Humans have consumed beef in scraped, chopped, hashed, and minced forms since the domestication of the cow. Its main advantage was that it was an efficient way of using many smaller parts of the cow, including fat, organs, brains, and so on. To this mixture could be... Read more |
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Adobe
ADOBE ADOBE (corrupted to "dobie" by Anglo-Americans), a type of construction used principally in the Rocky Mountain plateau and the southwestern United States. The method came from North Africa via Spain and was introduced into the Southwest by the Spanish conquerors in the sixteenth century.... Read more |
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silage
silage or ensilage , succulent, moist feed made by storing a green crop in a silo . The crop most used for silage is corn; others are sorghum, sunflowers, legumes, and grass. In a sealed silo, typically in the past a tall cylindrical structure but often today in a surface pile covered tightly... Read more |
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silo
silo watertight and airtight structure for making and storing silage . Silos vary in form from a covered pit, such as was used by the early Romans, to the modern storage tower, dating from the 19th cent. A silo may be made of wood, brick, reinforced concrete, metal, or tile blocks, and is sealed... Read more |
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Chopsticks
Chopsticks Chopsticks are a pair of sticks, usually wooden, used for eating Asian food. They originated in China sometime during the Shang dynasty (1766-1122 B.C.). As Chinese culture spread, chopsticks were introduced to other countries, and quickly became common... Read more |
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Battle of Iwo Jima 1945
Iwo Jima, Battle of (1945).When the Joint Chiefs of Staff directed the Pacific Fleet commander, Adm. Chester Nimitz, to occupy an island in the Bonin volcano group during the western Pacific campaign in World War II, the only island of significance was Iwo Jima. Early in 1945, Japanese fighter... Read more |
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Dietary roulette in a witches' cauldron of the chemical food age A friend...
...of Hell's teeth fillings, chops of seductive succulence that...changes and low blood pressure and gum up, as if with super-glue...lance, and has never feared to face a second helping of sticky toffee...didn't feel better, but his tree-climbing improved. ... |
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Get Real, chef; Tam's steak was the best he's had all year but the frozen...
...understand why I keep bumping my gums about the need for restaurants to...blade that looked as though it could chop down an oak tree). But, as I mentioned, the chips...Alas, there was just one soor face at the table... Keith thought... |
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A forest of friendly trunks.(THE HOME FORUM)
...oaks, and sweet gum - are rushing against...giants impose. They chop them down to make...They accuse these trees of mortifying their...Imagine if one of these trees fell on your house...tilted upward, his face screwed up like a...usually ... |
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PsychoGeography Will Self Journey to Easter Island
...depletion. The original tree-cover of giant palms...chopping down all the trees. They were then unable...sharpness that it threatens to chop your psyche in two. On...catchphrase is "Dum-Dum wants gum gum", and the horror of...us: speechless ... |
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COASTING KENYA; Forget the safari - Kenya's unspoilt shores make for an...
...times around a baobab tree and the devil that lives...nuts, fruit and chewing gum. In the 19th Century...among the ancient tamarind trees that lined its small courtyard...than 3,000 people saw, chop and chisel here, in low...bananas strung up between ... |
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New phase of life means no minivan.(News)
...motherhood - or Giving Tree Motherhood, as the...it. "The Giving Tree," as all you virtuous...s tale about the tree that loves the boy...build a house and chops down her trunk to...children now would rather face water-boarding than...seat ... |
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Such a clatter: Lighted home creates a scene.(Local)
...frosting and dotted with gum drops. This time of year...light bulbs that pepper trees, shrubs and dozens of potted spruce trees all around the house...built up the chiseled face with wax to give it the...Nick. David Caddy had to chop and ... |
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A cold Bean's not appetising.(Review)
...an enemy 'from the nave to the chops' and then stick the head on the...mind. Indeed, Bean's 'eeh by gum' northern Macbeth is much more...she wasn't sure that she could face it. In looking at her family tree, she is delighted to claim a... |
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From The One Marvelous Thing.(Excerpt)
...in those lucent days I scaled trees fast as a cat and sailed the...me, no one there to hide her face in dismay beneath her apron...although their porridge and chops were like dead leaves in my...See the pretty blush on her gums! I'd show my tongue, seized... |