A sprawling omnibus bill enacted under duress always invites a host of last-minute, usually mischievous, amendments.
After Empedocles had broken up the indivisible, motionless, and timeless reality of Parmenides and Zeno into four elements played upon alternately by Love and Strife, it was a short step for the Atomists of the 5th century bc, Leucippus and Democritus, to break up reality still further into an innumerable host of minute atoms moving in time through a vacuum.
"From a programming standpoint I'm grateful for a band as consistent as the Foo Fighters," said Matt Pinfield, morning host on WXRP in New York City and a host of MTV's "120 Minutes" in the '90s.
In a millisecond, our body has undergone ten times more processes than there are stars in the universe, which is exactly what Charles Darwin foretold when he said science would discover that each living creature was a "little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars of heaven".
Leicester failed to convert a host of chances, including a 69th-minute penalty by David Nugent.
In America, meanwhile, two national mobile carriers already have a dominant market share: Verizon and AT&T are far ahead of Sprint and T-Mobile – and a host of smaller companies that resell minutes and data from the networks of big carriers.
Laura McKenzie, evidently a host of a travel series, wasted two minutes of air time taking viewers on a tour of the penthouse and restaurants in the Las Vegas Hilton.
- packs a host of sex and gore into his three-minute trailer for a potential film called Thanksgiving, including an image of a cheerleader peeling off her clothes while bouncing on a trampoline, before apparently being impaled with a large, gleaming knife - through the vagina, no less.
Fabulous, Jaw-Dropping Showtime Series, Years of Living Dangerously, produced by James ("Avatar") Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and award-winning ("60 Minutes") veterans, features a host of film stars turned international correspondents to chronicle the impacts of climate change on families and humanity through gripping stories.
But if you look beyond the sweet counter (and instant gratification, for that matter) and consider making some items from scratch, there is a host of fun last‑minute nibbles to be made.
