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...door slammed, and it was Reed Camfort, his roommate. Camfort strode purposely into the room, his L.L. Bean hiking boots crushing errant tablets into flour, grinding them into the carpet, leaving white spots. He walked over to the stereo, picked out a disk, set it down on the turntable and flipped switched. "The Best of the Best of Merle Haggard" flowed through the air. Reed had put the stylus down on "Mama Tried." The volume was set on seven...
...than Hegel. He celebrates the virtues of rural life, of homosexuality in prisons, of staying off welfare, of dying in Vietnam. Let's get a beer." And watching Camfort sputter from burning his lips, he quickly ground out the butt that dropped from Camfort's shaking hand in the carpet, and adding, "Cigarettes too." He swept out of the room, and the others followed...
...Force One landed at London's Heathrow Airport, hundreds of journalists from all over the world waited in the rain to record the event. The British, who are not uncomfortable with imperial trappings-as their guest professes to be-rolled out a rich red carpet for him. The President stepped from his plane, carrying an efficient little briefcase instead of his usual suit bag. He stood in the nighttime chill, without an overcoat, and listened as British Prime Minister James Callaghan remarked that the task before the summit meeting was "nothing less than to overcome poverty, to get people...
...really about the exigencies of power relations inside "the joint." Homosexuality, in Herbert's imaginary cellblock, just happens to represent the medium of influence. So when Queenie, one of the cellmates, throws his head back effeminately and announces, "The General (meaning the warden) has had me all over his carpet," he means more than the physical act--he is also implying that he pulls political strings. And when Smitty, a new inmate, arrives, Rocky's way of intimidating him as a political protege is to force him to surrender in the shower...
...will take place in quarters fit for kings. Prime Minister James Callaghan refurbished the second-floor dining room at 10 Downing Street at a cost of $73,000. Air conditioning was installed and six temporary translation booths set up. The men will negotiate in a realm of gold-gold carpet, gold brocade draperies, gold-framed portraits of Lord Nelson and William Pitt gazing imperiously down on more circumscribed statesmen...