Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their arms pretending to wield a submachine gun and make rat-a-tat noises with huge, simpering grins on their faces--a futile attempt at portraying the city's gangster heritage. When you say that you live in Boston, people stretch out their arms to mimic driving a race car and make horrible screeching noises, with grimaces of abject horror on their faces. This shows an astute and intimate knowledge of the city...
...barely regained my senses when it happened again. From out of the haze of mud dripping from my forehead and eyelids, from out of the cloud of exhaust left by the garbage truck, a car was aiming straight for my head. Maybe the driver had decided to pass another car by going over the island without seeing me, or maybe he thought I was a mud puddle, or maybe he simply wanted to hit me for the sheer sadistic pleasure, but whatever the motive, that Honda's grille left an imprint on my forehead that remains to this...
...said when she was in college she telephoned a fake bomb threat "as a joke in honor of Guy Fawkes' Day." But she said jokes can get out of hand. Because of the missing four-foot-high gate, her dog escaped Sunday morning and was almost hit by a car, she said in the letter...
...place of the heavy wooden gate, Levine and Spitzer have posted a hand-lettered sign reading, "Please bring our gate back. It protects the dog from getting hit by a car and will cost us hundreds of dollars to replace. Please, please, give it back...
...stress the importance of cultivating new interests and staying mentally engaged. That view is shared by no less an authority than Comedian George Burns. "People practice to get old," he avers. "The minute they get to be 65 or 70, they sit down slow, they get into a car with trouble. They start taking small steps." Burns stays young by taking fearless strides. He plans to play the London Palladium on his 100th birthday -- eight years from...