Word: doorstep
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After Peter and Charlene hit it off online, where she poses as a blond white lawyer, she breaks out of jail and arrives on the doorstep of his suburban home, revealing her true identity and insisting that he help expunge her record.After some pushing, shoving and intense partying, they finally strike a deal in the dining room of Peter’s Augusta-like country club: she’ll protect his reputation by pretending to be his nanny, and he’ll work around the clock on her case. It’s the beginning of a beautiful...
Following the goal, Harvard was on a five-on-four power play and set itself up in the Dartmouth zone. Moore fired in a shot from the right circle, which Boucher saved. Nowak was on the doorstep and hacked at the rebound, but Boucher made a second save. Nowak gathered the puck again and this time slid it across the crease to junior forward Tyler Kolarik, who smartly one-timed the puck by Boucher, giving Harvard a 2-0 lead...
...then, military officials say, there will be 250,000 American troops on Iraq's doorstep or just down the block. That's more than enough to fight any sort of war that the Pentagon may be thinking of waging. Senior officers insist, with a snappy salute, that they are capable of fighting in an Iraqi summer, but in truth they would rather not. By April, daytime temperatures exceed 100F, and soldiers will be hampered by heavy suits protecting them from chemical and biological weapons. Helicopters can't fly as efficiently in hot, thin air; more water has to be shipped...
...neighborhood,” she said. “The media was at my doorstep, and as an individual I lived this tragedy...
...custom-fit service on its website last fall. Customers measure themselves, detail their style preferences and answer questions about their figure. The data yield a precise pattern that gets beamed to factories in Mexico or the Caribbean, and a pair of customized jeans arrives on the customer's doorstep three weeks later. Bass says he expected the custom-fit line would grow to 10% of sales. But a year later, nearly half of all Lands' End pants sold online are custom...