Word: ah
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...seems to be having some trouble with her upper clothing, and a barman is gallantly helping her. Out of the kitchen comes a giant silver tray of chicken wings, and the young lady emerges from behind the bar to offer around the tasty appetizers. Except now she's topless. Ah, so that's what...
...want to study it, and so on—she seems to disbelieve some of my answers for reasons I cannot grasp. She looks askance and solemnly declares, “I just do not understand. The Americans are well aware of these procedures.”Ah yes, the Americans.It emerges that the ‘only one day’ notion is, naturally, untrue. I am to apply, pay a $50 fee, and then wait for my proposal to be vetted by a committee of Tanzanian intellectuals. “It is secret,” Mama Gideon...
...Ah, the town of my childhood. The sound of ice cubes slipping around a low-ball glass half-full of whiskey was in the background whenever I called my friends' parents. It sounded glamorous and slightly sinful to my 10-year-old ears. When I walked over to my friends' houses in the evenings, they all had the same smell. It wasn't until college - no joke - that I figured out it was the smell of distant Scotch. Back then I thought it was some kind of cleaning agent that professional house-cleaners must use because we didn't have...
...hiked over a weekend or even an afternoon. "There's something for everyone," says Clow. Coastal towns along the trail offer rustic pansiyon (guesthouse) accommodation, but for a real slice of local life, Clow recommends staying in village homes: many families keep a spare room for walkers. Ah, the exhilaration of watching the sunset over the Mediterranean from atop a marble sarcophagus in an ancient Lycian burial site?how very Indiana Jones. trekkinginturkey.com
...where school sets the schedule. A world I’m very comfortable in. In other words, I’m starting to suspect that Cambridge is wearing off on me. So maybe you can take the girl out of Harvard, but not the Harvard out of the girl? Ah, but I can’t spend all day on such philosophical musings. After all, it’s only three o’clock, and there are 60 more words to go. Time to pick up that dictionary, train my lamp on its pages, and get to work. Mary...