Word: doorknob
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...here's a question that comes up: Would you rather be skinny but not be able to eat, or be fat? Everyone said they'd rather be skinny, because if you're fat, you never go anywhere. If you're fat, you're ignorant, lazy and dumb as a doorknob. That, I can proudly say, is not true...
...carrying Antonio Cassarà, 38, the head of Palermo's homicide squad, turned into the courtyard of the housing complex, Laura Cassarà waved to her husband from their apartment window. Cassarà and his two escorts sprinted up the steps leading to the building, but before the policeman could turn the doorknob, three Kalashnikov submachine guns sprayed a flood of bullets from the windows of three floors of a building across the street. Cassarà and one of his bodyguards died in the fusillade...
...Oskar's grandfather Thomas, has the punishing, visceral vividness of the battle scenes from The Red Badge of Courage. "Rapid, approaching explosions" sound "like an applauding audience running toward us." After the first wave of bombs, Thomas rushes out into the firestorm to find his girlfriend: "I grabbed the doorknob and it took the skin off my hand, I saw the muscles of my palm, red and pulsing, why did I grab it with my other hand...
...nuptials of an eccentric ukeleleist (whom I had seen perform in his early Village days) and a 17-year-old fan. The following week, Carson had a honeymoon joke: "There are already signs of trouble in the marriage. Last night Miss Vicky hung a sign on their hotel room doorknob that said: 'Disturb...
...another seek to connect Harvard students who have books and old junk to sell with those in the market for such things. I have no respect for the best publicized of these (thanks in no small part to an aggressive email campaign and the distribution of little doorknob signs to every undergraduate dorm room), www.crimsonexchange.com, which tried to capitalize off poor college students by charging a surcharge of all those using it to buy or sell. Currently, there are about 150 items listed for sale on the site, some large chunk by the founders or obvious friends and associates...