He would sit on the porch, a cup of Red Diamond coffee on the rail, and stroke its beak, cooing to it, as if he wanted it to understand the awful sacrifice he was asking it to make.

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Youkilis, while en route to Tampa, bought a Red Sox fan a cup of coffee.

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She ordered her coffin to be finished in red Chinese lacquer and used it as a coffee table before it became her final bed.

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Just place a hot object (a mug of cocoa) on the red side or a cold object (iced coffee) on the blue, then plug in your phone.

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Start your stroll at the north bank promenade in Kleinbasel (Lesser Basel), a picturesque residential area thriving with local coffee and art shops tucked in between old brick houses decorated with red and purple pansies and colourful wooden shutters.

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It was always the same: a great wedge of papaya with limes, a crisp thin omelette with green chilis mixed in, two slices of inch-thick white-bread toast, a dollop of red jelly and of margarine, and a pot of coffee with milk.

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Then, after dessert, we'll fill out our Oscar ballots in a leisurely fashion, and when everyone's set, and coffee poured, we'll zip through the crane shots, and the red carpet, and the pans of the crowd, and get right to Stewart's monologue.

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"It was just turning red, " explained Mr. Dodge, an artist who created a coffee table book about bicycles.

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He wore his red 49ers jersey and a pair of black headphones with earpieces shaped like coffee rolls, and he maintained a countenance of complete serenity.

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