Word: grill
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Weaver, come out here!" barked John McCain from somewhere on the front porch of his mountain retreat. The candidate's political director fired back, "You were supposed to be napping." "Nah," said McCain, "we've got grilling to do." Some candidates golf, others jog. John McCain spent his first day off the campaign trail since New Year's doing what he loves best--twirling the grill tongs at his Arizona retreat nestled in the hills of Cottonwood, with gnarled sycamores and fruit trees everywhere. Dressed in blue jeans, his Arizona Wildcats hat and a white sweatshirt, McCain bounced...
...daily, delivered ad nauseam to the 2% of the population that shows up at political rallies. But this hack was curious about the other 98%, and so I wandered into coffeehouses and barbecue joints, and eventually I came upon a place the Zagat restaurant guide missed altogether--the Roadkill Grill...
Intuition told me there had to be such a place. It sits along Highway 178 near Rocky Bottom, just shy of the North Carolina border. The Roadkill Grill is an outdoor barbecue pit on the property of Bob's Place, a rustic beer tavern where the Confederate flag flies proud and the "Hillbilly Poem" is stapled to an outside wall. It reads, "We're noted for our hard times and God's great creation. We're the people of the hillbilly nation." The hillbillies, it turns out, liked Bush, as did plenty of God-fearing family folk, party loyalists...
...caller to CPD complained the Cambridge Fire Department had broken the front grill of his car when they extinguished a fire under the car's hood...
...nothing now. I'm working in the frickin' Kirkland grill," he exclaims, cleaning the remaining kernels out of the popcorn machine. "Whatever importance I had as a political player on campus has clearly gone the way of the pizza bagel...