Which means nuts harvested in mid-November (particularly pecans) often won't hit the stores until just before (or after) Christmas, possibly in time for Yuletide nut balls but too late for Thanksgivings pies.
By comparison, the party held for Harold Bloom's new book, "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human," at the Shakespeare Society of America a couple of nights earlier, was a modest affair, which featured cheese-and-nut balls rather than caviar.
He didn't have to worry about the nut balls he was running against in the G.O.P. primary and was not forced to cater just to the Tea Party base.
Coat the fig-and-nut balls and drop them with the fork onto a piece of baking or waxed paper.
But there are plenty of jokes, and a gleeful appreciation of the nut-ball wit of outrageous cranks.
As he linked his improbable candidacy to the defeat of the Nazis, a local man in the rear of the crowd, who said his name was Jim Balsade, began to shout that Gingrich was a "yellowbelly" and a "nut ball," who was "making crazy statements".
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Soon blogs started popping up all across the internet with the names Bulls Balls Info (both number 1 and 2), Truck-Nuts-Balls, and Reporter 666.
I don't know which nut ball Leeds had in mind; neither he nor Powell have responded to my requests for comment.
