Word: corkscrew
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Variety Is the Spicy Corkscrew Fries of Life: I would gladly sacrifice my first-born child for Director of Harvard Dining Services Michael Berry, but is he responsible for the wacky proliferation of fried potatoes in the dining hall? I mean, you've got six kinds of fries--waffle, steak, shoestring, cottage, home and spicy corkscrew. Then you've got potato coins and tater tots. Brunchskins and Skincredibles probably count...
...Spicy corkscrew fries...
...patients with advanced Lyme disease does not respond to conventional cures. So a dangerous and unconventional therapy has come into use. Dr. Henry Heimlich of Cincinnati, known for developing the Heimlich maneuver to relieve choking, observed that Lyme disease resembles syphilis in that it is caused by a corkscrew-shaped spirochete. He knew of an outdated treatment for the late stages of syphilis in which patients were deliberately infected with malaria and then cured of it. It was believed once that malarial fevers cooked away the syphilis, though now it is thought that the malaria provokes a powerful response...
...yell at the men, attacking them for their hypocrisy. Though I believe this final twist is meant to justify the previously presented misogynist attitudes and violence, it is not enough to counter the rest of the action of the play. The woman is eventually silenced--killed by a corkscrew...
...Someone brought me back a nosering from India," she says. "But it was threaded like a corkscrew and really painful. If anyone can tell me how to wear it so that it doesn't hurt, I'd be really grateful...