Word: diaper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them the kind of ocean playground that until then had been open only to the rich. At a time when public beaches meant meager toilets in shabby wooden shacks, notes biographer Robert Caro, Moses sketched two enormous bathhouses a mile apart, with canopied terraces, vast swimming pools and even diaper-changing rooms. And in place of the barkers and hot-dog vendors of Coney Island, he decreed a serene, pristine boardwalk offering shuffleboard and paddle tennis, all at nominal prices -- no commerce allowed...
...their breasts. A history of breast surgery -- biopsies, breast reduction -- increases the risk. (A warning sign of the problem: the breasts do not swell significantly during early pregnancy.) How does one tell if a breast-fed baby is getting enough to eat? The proof, say experts, is in the diaper. In the first few weeks of life, a nursing baby normally wets at least six diapers a day and has very frequent bowel movements. For mothers who cannot produce enough milk, the solution is easy: supplement the baby's diet with infant formula...
Okay, we're freshmen. To tell the truth, we're not 21. We can't, legally, buy liquor. We can't, legally, go to say the neighborhood pub. However, it is no reason to print articles depicting us as nose-picking, diaper-wearing, e-mail-crazed board-game-playing losers...
...because I am always flying) -- and, in any case, don't want to use a ticket that will give me no miles. More and more companies, besides, have got in on the act, so that soon, I suspect, I'll be earning miles from using the same brand of diaper, from walking or talking or not going by air (but charging long-distance bus rides to my credit card). Even the woman who runs the largest mail-order-bride service on the U.S. mainland accepts credit cards: now I can earn miles by choosing a wife...
...coronation. Don't look down; look up. Nash may have been a spendthrift with his sovereign's sovereigns, but he certainly knew about stucco, and could bring it to incredible heights of airiness, complexity and rich detail. Even the gold leaf on every inch of the coffering and diaper work fails to make these vaults seem congested...