Word: combes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home, remember everything you can about the setting. Try to leave your fingerprints everywhere you can, and try to leave some personal small item such as a button or earring, anything which can be traced to you. Preserve all physical evidence carefully. Do not bathe, shower, douche, change clothing, comb hair, etc. Try not to touch any object handled by your attacker...
...take exception to the interpretation in the book review of Presidential Anecdotes [Aug. 24] of John Quincy Adams' remark, "Well, I suppose she combs yours now," as indicating a lack of small talk. In its day it would have been an apt and humorous response. In the 18th or 19th century, to "comb one's hair" or to "comb one's head" meant to scold...
Still, the police took no chances. Not only did they comb St. Paul's daily for bombs but, the night before the wedding, prowled miles of sewer system under the city looking for explosive devices. For extra precautions on the big day, the Queen's Household Cavalry rode an unusually tight formation around her coach. Her personal police officer, Commander Michael Trestrail, sat near Charles in the cathedral, dressed appropriately in morning clothes, and the bride and bridegroom had a detective disguised as a footman riding their coach (not to mention the 400 plainclothesmen mingling with the onlookers...
...desk job at the Pentagon, and proceeded to write The Betrayal, a blistering attack on U.S. military strategy in Viet Nam and the corruption of the Saigon government. Corson was scheduled to retire the day before the book was published, but a task force was convened to comb its pages for security violations; suddenly he was threatened with a court-martial. That threat passed, though Corson got a "nonjudicial reprimand." Since his retirement he has kept his sense of outrage over how the grunt was treated both in Viet Nam and at home. "We barely gave them...
...Poetry, at least, they could not take away from me!" she thought. "They had taken my dress, my shoes and stockings, and my comb, they had left me half naked and freezing, but this it was not in their power to take away, it was and remained mine. And I should survive even this dungeon...