Word: brooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tongue missing) and a floppy white yachtsman's hat (a 58th-birthday present from his wife ten days earlier), he carted three bags of soiled linen to the laundry, then, pausing occasionally to consult a neat shopping list, picked up gold-covered paper matchbooks, a dustpan, a broom, clothes hooks, cleanser and a package of frozen pureed spinach...
...standard 007 diversion, weapons and women are fondled with equal ardor, though sex is not nearly as important as the inflicting and suffering of physical pain. Indeed, Amis hits an almost pornographic intensity as his Bond gets his eardrums probed with a meat skewer, his septum stimulated by a broom straw, and his frontal lobe pummeled with an incessant and derivative yak about the spiritual union between the tormented and the tormentor. The pedantic sadist is Colonel Sun of the People's Liberation Army of China, who wants to blow up some Russians and then blame the incident...
...windows. We decide on a rope and pulley system, between a tree and the Low windows, but there is some question about how to get the line up to the people in Low without the jocks grabbing it. When one kid suggests tying an end to a broom handle and throwing it like a harpoon, John (Outside Agitator) suggests we train a bird. A helicopter has already been looked into by Strike Central, but the FAA won't allow it. Finally we agree on shooting in a leader line with a bow and arrow...
...also send his stone thundering into the target to scatter enemy stones like tenpins while leaving his own team's untouched. The idea of sweeping is to melt a thin layer of ice by friction, thus making it easier for the stone to slide, and strong-armed broom men can add as much as 12 ft. to a slide...
...this is the accomplishment of a lean, handsome Brazilian named Amador Aguiar, 64, the son of peasants and a school dropout who got his start sweeping the floors of a small-town bank. Soon he handed in his broom for an accountant's pencil and, when his boss fled with the cash, moved up to manager. In 1943, with the assist of a few friends and $3,000 capital, he struck...