Word: anvils
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...long enough to fix themselves a pipe. After the war, the cigarette quickly evolved into a dainty feminine article to be held aloft by society ladies during two-cheeked kisses and a brooding device for suave anti-social heroes. The early incarnation of the cell phone was an unsexy anvil-sized apparatus for doctors and moguls. Now the base has expanded to include gabby soccer moms, malcontent teenagers and, well, just about everybody...
...economy already teetering on the edge of the recessionary abyss, that?s like handing it an anvil. If consumer spending finally collapses, you can bet the sound will be heard by the business side of the economy - and neither manufacturing nor capital investment (they?re closely related) will start up again in a consumer-demand vacuum...
...demonstrate just how committed Laura and I are to this program, we have commissioned our daughter Jenna, a freshman at the University of Texas, to strike the first anvil for America.* While new plants are certain to be coming to your neighborhood, each Champion will be assigned to work outside of their community to challenge them outside of their comfort zone. Youth will be exposed to America's heartland and forgotten towns like Wierton, West Virginia and Drakesboro, Kentucky, spots brimming with sturdy life skills and bedrock values not available on MTV. Host "barracks" at decommissioned military bases provide...
...Poetry and profit, however, have rarely been a good marriage. Nor do critics see much potential for great literature in SMS. In fact, cute abbreviations like wassup, ruup4it and clever "emoticon" symbols such as :-) and :-( make real poetry lovers wince. "Puh-leeze!" says Hamish Ironside of Anvil Press, an independent poetry publisher in London. "This isn't literature. It's a game, a fad." And besides, he adds, "I don't have a mobile phone...
...often used "for bits of household cleaning and to take off makeup," though later, under my intense questioning, he admitted that "the majority are used for cleaning small orifices in and around the head," which is clearly newspeak for ears. When I asked if he himself put the anvil maimers into his ears, he paused for a long time and finally said, "Well, I don't really have a rummage around." Milton, I discovered, was British...