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Furniture was piled in the center of rooms, and oil-soaked rags were lit and tossed through broken windows.

The owner of a Peachtree City, Georgia, auto repair shop who paid a former employee’s final wages with 91,500 oil-soaked pennies has been ordered to pay nearly $40,000 more to nine of his workers.

He was among the first to capture images of the volcano when it blew on May 18 that year, and he produced indelible pictures of oil-soaked wildlife following the 1989 Exxon-Valdez oil spill in Alaska’s Prince William Sound.

In the United States, most people think of those oil-soaked foods as latkes, or potato pancakes, and jelly doughnuts called sufganiyot.

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It tasted odd, sweet with an oil-soaked texture, and by the time it had cooled enough for use in a s'more, it was unpleasantly chewy, like old gum.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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