Word: adorns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Odessa Baiul skates at a rink where the ice is often like spring mush. She shares a little room with her coach's younger daughter, her best friend. Her idol is Rudolf Nureyev, whose pictures adorn the walls. Zmievskaya says her prize pupil "doesn't know what a million dollars is. All she knows is that she needs 10 fantiki ((candy wrappers)) to buy an ice cream...
...Coop: No romance department here. But to cash in on the upcoming holiday, a special Valentine's table has been set up by the door. A variety of rather interesting titles vaguely relating to love adorn the display. Perhaps more appropriate for the self-help section, one book entitled How to Attract Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere advocates that singles should flirt using the "repeat, rephrase, reflect" method of conversation to attract maximum partners...
Violins of all sizes line the walls of the shop, and a few hang from the ceiling. Several American oil paintings, including two by Earnest Longfellow--nephew of famous poet and Cambridge resident--adorn the walls, and a collection of Oriental rugs for sale lie near the window...
...Pico Rivera, southeast of Los Angeles, offers a glimpse of the paranoia that is fast turning homes into fortresses. His two-story frame house is outfitted with motion-sensitive floodlights, video monitors, infrared alarms and a % spiked fence topped with razor wire. A metal cage surrounds the patio. Bars adorn every window. A Doberman pinscher guards the yard. And a security guard patrols the driveway. "The wrong people are behind bars," says Anne Seymour of the National Victim Center. "People are putting themselves behind bars because we as a nation have failed to put the right people behind bars...
...visit Tehran today, in fact, is to marvel at the changes in approach. Gone, for the most part, are the garish caricatures of "Great Satan" America that used to adorn the walls of public places. Where commercial advertising has not replaced them, they have been whitewashed and painted over. Courting couples may sit and talk -- though without holding hands -- in several new gardens and parks...