Mmm, mmm, good!
Two quotes from this article: Sonya Thomas, at 99 pounds, gobbled her way to another speed-eating title over the weekend by attacking a Wisconsin staple _ the bratwurst.
The woman known as The Black Widow on the competitive-eating circuit downed 35 brats in 10 minutes to win the first Johnsonville Brat-Eating World Championship.
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Her various eating records include ones for hard-boiled eggs (65 in 6 minutes 40 seconds) and chicken wings (167 in 32 minutes).
The day before the bratwurst-eating contest, she won a grilled-cheese-sandwich eating contest in San Diego, eating 22.
Two quotes from a very different article: Emergency operations to feed 2.5 million people in Niger have reached some of their first beneficiaries, but there was only enough for some of the hundreds of women and children who came in search of help.
Mothers who left their homes at dawn to trek to the village of Yama northeast of the capital swelled a crowd of expectant faces to more than 1,000 by the time aid workers began handing out biscuits and flour from a stock designed for 500 people on Wednesday.
and
"I came for food. We have no food in our village, and the children are hungry," said Hamsou Kadi, who walked three miles (five kilometers) with her nine-month-old son Saaid.
Once word had gone round that food was coming to Yama, about 300 miles (500 kilometers) northeast of the capital, Niamey, hundreds of women left farms scattered across the area to pick their way across muddy fields in the hope of a share.
profligate
adjective
1. Lacking in moral restraint: abandoned, dissipated, dissolute, fast, gay, incontinent, licentious, rakish, unbridled, unconstrained, uncontrolled, ungoverned, uninhibited, unrestrained, wanton, wild.
2. Characterized by excessive or imprudent spending: extravagant, lavish, prodigal, profuse, spendthrift, wasteful.
The woman known as The Black Widow on the competitive-eating circuit downed 35 brats in 10 minutes to win the first Johnsonville Brat-Eating World Championship.
and
Her various eating records include ones for hard-boiled eggs (65 in 6 minutes 40 seconds) and chicken wings (167 in 32 minutes).
The day before the bratwurst-eating contest, she won a grilled-cheese-sandwich eating contest in San Diego, eating 22.
Two quotes from a very different article: Emergency operations to feed 2.5 million people in Niger have reached some of their first beneficiaries, but there was only enough for some of the hundreds of women and children who came in search of help.
Mothers who left their homes at dawn to trek to the village of Yama northeast of the capital swelled a crowd of expectant faces to more than 1,000 by the time aid workers began handing out biscuits and flour from a stock designed for 500 people on Wednesday.
and
"I came for food. We have no food in our village, and the children are hungry," said Hamsou Kadi, who walked three miles (five kilometers) with her nine-month-old son Saaid.
Once word had gone round that food was coming to Yama, about 300 miles (500 kilometers) northeast of the capital, Niamey, hundreds of women left farms scattered across the area to pick their way across muddy fields in the hope of a share.
profligate
adjective
1. Lacking in moral restraint: abandoned, dissipated, dissolute, fast, gay, incontinent, licentious, rakish, unbridled, unconstrained, uncontrolled, ungoverned, uninhibited, unrestrained, wanton, wild.
2. Characterized by excessive or imprudent spending: extravagant, lavish, prodigal, profuse, spendthrift, wasteful.
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