Word: affixation
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This, though, would betray an important and embarrassing truth. The only thing that kept me out there, steeled against the rain and straining against the wind to affix my satellite dish, was the biting and driving need...
...datelines infrequently, which is part of the reason why I enjoy it. I have written a fair number of stories, but before this summer, only three articles began with a city name all in capital letters. It is common practice at newspapers not to affix a dateline to articles reported locally. And a Crimson staffer covering the College administration or the Undergraduate Council reports very locally indeed...
...Sept. 11 and its aftermath. But U.S. citizens, unlike subjects of the Commonwealth, don't kneel before the monarch, and so Rudy stayed upright. Giuliani received a silver cross and a star pin, but despite being compared to Winston Churchill during the blitz, he is not entitled to affix an official "Sir" before his name. Later he and his companion JUDITH NATHAN took in the sights and met Prime Minister Tony Blair. Visiting with members of Parliament, Giuliani offered some tips on how to combat London's rising crime rate. With few squeegee men in London, it's going...
...Still determined, Xiaowei visited a Shanghai surgeon who promised the seemingly impossible: to add 7 cm to her height. The leg surgery would be simple, he said, if brutal. He would saw her shin bones, affix metal braces with 16 steel needles to her legs, then slowly stretch the newly forming bone tissue into a longer pair of gams. A steep $11,000 later, Xiaowei found herself in a spartan Shanghai hospital room surveying her scarred but elongated legs. Four months in the dingy ward have left her stir-crazy, but Xiaowei shows off limbs already stretched...
...Indy 500 letters 2. Sephia maker 3. Affix one's John Hancock to 4. Zhu says protecting them with a missile shield would interfere in Chinese affairs 5. With 55-Across, co-author of a 1981 tax-cut bill 6. Rep. Hutchinson 7. Congresswoman Jennifer, named deputy permanent chairwoman for the G.O.P. convention 8. A constitutional change has cleared the way for him to seek re-election 9. Tony's son, who was arrested in London for public drunkenness 10. Thieves' hangouts 13. Empty, mathematically 15. Japanese honorific 19. Itches 20. He said Washington has too much money 21. Wife...