Word: aproned
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...Alberto speaks English proficiently but prefers Spanish. At Kirkland, he wears the standard dining hall uniform--black shoes, black pants and apron over a standard-issue maroon polo. His hat covers his black curly hair. These curls and his boyish grin belie his actual...
...these activities--with terms like "radiant ignition" and "floral supposition," one might be tempted to accept Scarry's logic for the sake of its prettiness. Images of beauty dominate the book, from simple flowers to the grace of Achilles' movements to the gossamer-like qualities of Emma Bovary's apron strings and wisps of hair blowing in the wind. Even violence in literature can be pretty, if the author uses imaginative devices well...
...seasons, Christopher Roma-Agvanian `02 has slung a bag of Cokes over his shoulder, wrapped a money apron around his waist and walked up and down the bleachers of Fenway Park. This spring, his "boy" from their Boston Latin days and current PfoHo roommate Sean H. Ryan `02 joined him to holler and hustle the crowd...
...academic stars. Many home-educated students, like apprentice chef Rebecca Durkee, 22, of Livonia, N.Y., and Katie Harwood, 22, of Logan, Utah, a hospital accounting clerk, don't go to college at all. Nor are all home-schooling parents Bible-thumping Christians teaching their kids at apron-string length to protect them from sex, drugs and Darwin. In the gruesome wake of recent school shootings, a new cadre of parents are wondering whether home schooling is the best way to shield their kids from bullets. Ben's and Rebecca's parents did keep them close in a highly structured setting...
...Daytona 500 earlier this year, the entire field tried to gang-tackle him, deliberately closing off the passing lane, so to speak. But near the end of the race, Gordon sensed his moment and pulled a spectacular stunt, diving down off a banked turn to the apron of the track to limbo around two other cars. He won with Dale Earnhardt as close to his bumper as a license plate. Gordon says he drives without fear and that there is a point in every race when "desire overrides everything, and if you really want it badly, special things happen...