So, Grandma Ignatia said, I married instead a man who hadn't an ounce of spare flesh, a man who hated the color blue and never wore it, a man whose sisters liked me.
The mobilization of populations had become not merely total but scientific: governments managed to squeeze the last ounce of effectiveness out of men and women of all ages, who endured rationing, extended workweeks, and protracted military service to an extent unimaginable even 30 years before.
"I can choose to love Lolly with every ounce of love a gay man can have for a woman.
It's all great, to be honest, and if its quality serves as a barometer for what to expect from the game it's been made for, every ounce of buzz around No Man's Sky will have been justified, and every hopeful explorer-to-be richly rewarded.
After buying an ounce of methamphetamine from the men for $7,000 in December, the undercover investigator showed up to the parking lot of the closed Pathmark supermarket on Cherry Street in Chinatown.
By way of illustration: in 1910, one ounce of gold bought a decent men's suit -- and it still does today.
By comparison, the price for 12 ounces of the Soup Man's offerings will range from $5 to $7 and higher for soups like lobster bisque, said Seb Rametta, the company's executive vice president.
I've met people on six-figure salaries and three holidays a year who haven't got an ounce of the charm shown by this man pushed up against a wall.
If either man had an ounce of conviction or courage, they'd tell the public the truth – the cost of energy is going to rise, and it will keep rising until somebody has the guts to stand up against the grasping, greedy hands of the public and address our addiction to fossil fuels.
But then you probably guessed it was parody, because nobody with an ounce of sense talks like that about men.
