Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time she, my grandfather and I went to dinner after one of his bowling matches. We walked into the restaurant, sat down, and I began to cry. My grandfather asked me what was wrong, and through a curtain of tears, I muttered, "We left the bowling ball in the car...
...Well, of course we did," he said. "It'll be fine out there." I demanded that he get the ball and bring it inside. He refused, laughing. When my tears did not stop, he caved in, went out to the car and brought back the ball. People in the restaurant looked at him strangely as he walked to our table with a bowling ball in his arms. But they were probably grateful--I stopped crying...
...giveth, and the Senate taketh away. For all I know, they might throw the metaphorical roadster of highway safety back into fourth gear and drive off into the sunset of restrictive legislation. Maybe next week they'd raise the drinking age to 31 and require every occupant of a car to be strapped to an inflated air bag with 20-lb. test fishing line. I decided to withhold judgement until I could talk to an expert...
Norman Roy, a Cambridge taxi driver, lambasted Harvard Square jaywalkers and said a police traffic director was necessary. "I've seen people walk along the sides of cars and berate the car for going through the green light." He also said that Harvard fares pay low rates and tip stingily...
Willis Smith of Ottawa Lake, Mich., is selling photographs of the image, a set of four for $2. He has sold 700 sets. Since the image photos are so popular, he thought he would show people his other pictures, so he keeps his family album in his car. People are now ordering prints out of his family album, vacation shots with crooked horizons, backyard snaps. "I've turned pro in two weeks," he says. "I'm getting calls from all over the United States...