Word: brush
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...sure what "BROIL" is for. Maybe for drying out wet shoes. Certainly not for food preparation. If you do commit this culinary faux pas, however, use a butter knife to whittle away the black, carbonized surfaces of burned food. Brush off the black dust, and apply mustard liberally to disguise the ashy taste...
...local TV headlines. Then he heads for the third floor for half an hour on the NordicTrack (jogging is out because of a lame hip) and a verbal massage from his friend Rush Limbaugh over the wide screen. In the shower he takes down an old-fashioned shaving brush and mug and lathers up. The equipment "tells you something," he says. But he shaves in the shower with a modern razor...
...powerful jaws and daggerlike teeth can rip the victim's throat or sever its spinal column, making quick work of the kill. But there will be no killing at this moment. After padding along a park road for a mere 100 yds., the tigress abruptly melts into the brush -- here one instant, gone the next. Watching her disappear, Indian biologist Ullas Karanth of New York's Wildlife Conservation Society, breaks into a knowing smile. "When you see a tiger," he muses, "it is always like a dream...
This is not Martin's first brush with controversy in the college's history department...
...evening a few days ago when I heard a noise outside my door. Thinking it was a friendly visitor, I called out an invitation to enter--but no one crossed my threshold. I eventually got up and opened the door. It was then that I discovered my close brush with evil...