Word: curlingly
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...airline industry is like the little girl who had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead. When the industry is good, it is very, very good; but when it is bad it is horrid. After nearly two years of being absolutely awful, largely because the U.S. economy was sluggish, the highly cyclical air-travel business appears headed for good times once again...
...childless, but his affection for children is deep; when he heard of the death of 18-month-old Angela Gallagher, hit by a sniper's ricochet in Belfast, he wept openly. A practicing Catholic, the blue-eyed, graying Lynch wears modish sideburns and hair long enough to curl around his collar...
...police were generous; they moved the crowd indoors Monday evening. But think of the Colliscum: 40 degrees instead of 30; some food but few toilets; hardly any blankets to warm the crowd forced to curl up on the stone floor. And still the troops patrolled outside, protecting America against these worst of criminals...
...these animals fill a psychological need in some of us. We remember Sunday nights at 7 p. m. when we used to curl up in front of the TV with our dog to watch Lassie save Timmy from forest fires, Mack trucks, and child molesters. The feats of Rin Tin Tin and Rusty are still fresh in our minds. And what of those special words at the end of Sergeant Preston? "Well, King, this case is closed...
...cure. Indeed, they are not even sure of the cause. The official diagnosis is that Fleisher's malady much resembles writer's cramp. But what started as an occasional feeling of "pins and needles" in the fingers is now a cramped condition in which the fingers curl into the palm involuntarily. In the past six months, the trouble has become so bad that Fleisher, now 42, can barely sign his name...