Mutare, on the border with Mozambique, has taken on the air of a frontier town filled with brash young men touting US dollars and an air of menace.
"William said, 'There have been a few babies touted to us' - he could see the funny side".
When we resisted ordering the highly touted cannoli, he brought us one anyway.
Remember how some Giants touted Ray Handley for "treating us like men" as Parcells's successor in 1991 before Handley self-destructed.
When the Chicago detective Richard Zuley arrived at Guantánamo Bay late in 2002, US military commanders touted him as the hero they had been looking for.
He touted a "patent that allows us to interpret a set of objects for different devices".
A crowdfunding site touted as "Kickstarter for the rest of us" has decided that the rest of us doesn't include people who are pro-abortion rights.
This work, later dubbed gain-of-function (GOF) research, was touted as being informative in terms of helping us predict the next pandemic strain, develop more effective vaccines, design better drugs, as well as improve pandemic preparedness and field surveillance.
Earlier this week, the president touted his economic policies in Cleveland, Ohio, and said that he wants "us to get to where we need to be".
Next month brings the publication of Chad Harbach's highly touted baseball novel, "The Art of Fielding," and many of us eagerly await its at-bat.
Other stirring speeches touted the rights of women, Muslims, and Native Americans, giving us food for the soul with accompanying action items.
