Word: grapefruit
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...part grapefruit juice...
...Lacroix seemed to delight in showing off his artisans' skill with feather petticoats, elaborate embroideries and lace appliqués--all the details that are so costly and integral to couture. He showed his hand as a master colorist, trotting out unexpected combinations like a sari-style chiffon gown in grapefruit hues of pink and yellow, trimmed in turquoise, or pieces in pastel blues set off with deep, rich black-currant-colored velvet trim. He even resurrected his signature '80s silhouette, the pouf skirt. "I feel serene," he said after the show...
...same time, the federal government is all too ready to devote large sums of money to grapefruit research, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and numerous other juicy pieces of pork loaded into the omnibus appropriations bill, sure to help some two-bit Congressman get elected...
However, the Staff, much like Jonathan Swift commenting on the Irish potato famine, likes to find a silver lining to every possible demographic disaster. The federal government may succeed in doing something other than ensuring America is a less numerate, less literate place with great grapefruit juice. As college funding options decline, more and more students will have little choice but to serve in the armed forces in order to fund their college educations. An influx of adolescents from lower income families desperate to escape poverty through education can be redirected to the streets of Fallujah, or even Damascus...
...original Big Bang. Its basic premise is that when the universe was less than a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second old, it briefly went through a period of supercharged expansion, ballooning from the size of a proton to the size of a grapefruit (and thus expanding at many, many times the speed of light). Then the expansion slowed to a much more stately pace. Improbable as the theory sounds, it has held up in every observation astronomers have managed to make...