Word: aprons
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...greet the Vulcan's distinguished crew of war heroes. The pilot was Squadron Leader Donald Howard, D.F.C., and his copilot was none other than Air Marshal Sir Harry Broadhurst, chief of Britain's Bomber Command. Lady Broadhurst waited with their four-year-old daughter on the airport apron...
...manager. We had been told earlier that there would be a short rehearsal before the performance. As we peered around noticing the height of the ceiling and tying to find the house through the procession of curtains, a young girl dressed in a fluffy peasant costume with a white apron stood up against a tall upright packing crate doing exercises. Her legs swung as if they were pendlums. Now one way, now the other, taking no regard for her anatomical structure. Pretty soon other dancers appeared through the wings like small fairies. They embraced one another, then held...
...after his barber testified in court: "He asked for a short haircut, and that's what I gave him. After I got through, he looked in the mirror and yelled, 'You've cut off my sideburns,' then jumped out of the chair, threw the apron m my face and twisted my arm round until it broke...
...soon as it began to get hot. The fragments fell to earth as tektites. When a fragment had the right shape to keep it from tumbling as it moved through the air, the molten glass that was wiped off the forward end frequently solidified as "wings" or an "apron" attached to the rear end. The glass that was melted can often be distinguished from the rest by microscopic examination...
...whether these dreams of intimacy with what we regard as the humble and oppressed peoples of the earth do not represent a form of rebellion against the older European peoples ... in order to prove to ourselves the reality of our maturity and the finality of our liberation from the apron strings of old Europe...