Word: cuffe
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...hand of the enemy. Anyway, Wilson was sure that U. S. economic power was such that "when the war is over we can force them to our way of thinking." At such naïveté, or was it conceit?, how Balfour must have laughed up his trim cuff, Clemenceau up his wrinkled sleeve...
...also do away with the necessity of a vest. Shoes are brown with very light saddles; the last word in college nattiness. But the men who labor for the good Felix may mix up the colors a bit. Of socks we have nothing to report; 21 inches of trouser cuff did away with all possibility of discovering them...
...days schoolmasters kept terrible watch over their students when examination days came to pass. Should a student peer too curiously at his shirt cuff, he would be summoned to the master's desk. In the old days, masters often spanked...
When a tank must be repaired, these standard precautions are regularly followed: The top part of the tank, which slides like a cuff or sleeve over the base, is lowered and the gas squeezed out until only 2% or 3% of gas is left in the tank. Then the top is raised and air sucked in. This procedure is repeated until the percentage of gas to air is only .004. Then the valves are shut off and the gas main is disconnected. There are, of course, lightning arresters and guards against smokers...
...friends of his, or people he would like to have for friends, with an inflection that first of all suits himself, however well it may also suit the public. When they call him a literary lackey he is artist enough not to mind. He snickers softly up his poplin cuff. The point has been missed, yet his work is good, it satisfies his Oriental sense of perfection and it sells enormously...