Roll pieces of the mixture into small ovals about twice the size of the date stones, then push one into each of the dates.
A neighbor remembered seeing "a yellow missile, about the size of a date palm, crash and explode in a white light".
Ayad had heard a roar and had seen a yellow missile, about the size of a date palm, crash and explode in a white light.
Related: avocados, the second-largest crop in Florida, are being threatened by beetles the size of a date-stamp on a penny.
In "Rootless," a sleepy train ride in Vietnam between Hanoi and Sapa is an occasion for descriptive ingenuity: "Hours ago, I crossed a motorbike with a hog strapped to its seat, / the size of a date pit from a distance".
Niger's current gold rush began in 2014, when, according to another legend, an ethnic Toubou herder in the Djado plateau, near Niger's northeast border with Libya, discovered a large stone the size of a date, or – depending on who you ask – an orange.
Khan's surge in the polls and the increase in the size of his rallies date back only a year or two; previously, his party was barely relevant.
But because violating a fast is stressful for many observant Jews, some rabbis will, depending on their custom, recommend, for example, eating no more than the size of a large date at intervals of about nine minutes or drinking less than a cheekful of water.
Population: 10 million Area: 12 times the size of Wales Capital: Lansing Date in Union: 26 January 1837 Flower: Apple blossom Motto: "If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you" Nickname Wolverine State/Great Lakes State Traveller's Guide Getting there The writer flew from London Heathrow to Detroit, Michigan with KLM/Northwest (0870 507 4074; www.klm.com).
The controversy over the size of Trump's hands dates back to the 1980s, when journalist Graydon Carter referred to the billionaire as a "short-fingered vulgarian" in Spy magazine.
