Word: braided
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...refers to herself by her nickname, Flicka; points out her favorite knitting store across the street; and admits that the night before, she ran out of gas on Mulholland Drive and cried until her husband came to pick her up. I am worried she is going to try to braid my hair and choreograph a dance routine...
Like any high church, West Point relishes pomp. On crisp autumn Saturdays, tourists flock to the vast greensward known as the Plain to watch the corps of cadets parade by in their gray swallowtail coats adorned with gold braid. The essential West Point, however, is never on public display. It is hidden behind stone battlements, in bleak inner courtyards of black asphalt. In these forbidding surroundings, the rite of passage into the Long Gray Line begins every July with a seven-week ordeal that is officially labeled Cadet Basic Training but is better known as Beast Barracks. Plebes are weaned...
...basement of the tower) offers weekly courses, where Harvard-affiliated women in their late 20s, forward-thinking male undergraduates looking to make that perfect Valentine’s Day gift-—and anyone else who’s interested-—gather to learn braid- and pot-making from Pamela Gorgone. Enrolled students are given keys to the studio for outside of class hours, and out-of-house students can also take classes, for a small additional...
Nicolas Ghesquière of Balenciaga, normally known for avant-garde creations like skinny legging pants and deconstructed negligees, sent out a beautifully commercial collection of military-inspired blazers trimmed in gold braid and punctuated with brass buttons. "I wanted to be more grownup and more luxurious," he said...
...years after it first opened in May 1891, the Machrie attracted the legendary golfing triumvirate of Harry Vardon, John Henry Taylor and James Braid by offering top prize money (at the time it was ?100) for its Open. But thereafter the Machrie became the course that time forgot. Now the Machrie is waking from its century of slumber: plans are afoot to extend the links and develop the Machrie Hotel, which serves as clubhouse and 19th hole. "If it goes well," says manager Ian Brown, "future visitors will be able to experience a course very similar to the one that...