Word: brushed
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Remember Bart Brush? I didn't think...
...Brush was the most colorful figure on the 1997 Harvard baseball team, a squad with more hues than a jumbo box of Crayolas. He wore thick glasses and robust muttonchop sideburns and strolled around the right-field bullpen with his uniform shirt untucked and his pitching hand down his pants...
...Campo is one exception. In the same family as the carnival zeppole, the ciambella lacks its fried, cratered crust. Instead, the dough is chewy inside and out. But the granulated sugar makes it another one to eat in private--you don't want anyone to see that you simply brush the crumbs to the floor...
...event that you've never had a brush with death or even an intimation of mortality, here's a quick exercise to determine whether such an experience would change you as a person: In the time it takes you to read this sentence (about seven seconds), you are that much closer to your own inevitable death. Really feel like flouting the Grim Reaper? Reread the sentence (hey, it's your funeral). You've squandered almost 15 precious seconds of your life, and there's absolutely nothing you can do to get that time back...
...Lategano, have persistently denied their long-rumored affair, but Hanover--breaking years of silence--reignited the story, adding that she had tried to patch things up after Lategano left city hall but Rudy "chose another path." Only then did the old, fierce Rudy spring back into action, using his brush-back pitches to shut down legitimate questions about Lategano. When the press aide left city hall a year ago--forced out, it was said, at Hanover's insistence--the mayor helped her land a $150,000-a-year taxpayer-subsidized job with the New York convention and visitors bureau...