Word: dryer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There are a lot of demands just trying to take care of the everyday needs of the family," says Summer, who has several older half-siblings. "Even my mom and I going to the laundry--we don't have a washer and dryer, we don't have a car--we'd walk like eight blocks taking big, heavy bags of laundry. That would take the whole...
Rainfall could increase overall--but the increase wouldn't be uniform across the globe. Thus areas that are already prone to flooding might flood more often and more severely, and since water evaporates more easily in a warmer world, drought-prone regions and deserts could become even dryer. Hurricanes, which draw their energy from warm oceans, could become even stronger as those oceans heat...
...Lila Nachtigall, co-author of the popular handbook Estrogen: The Facts Can Change Your Life! (HarperCollins; $11). The natural waning of estrogen in the middle years often brings physical changes that can ruin a woman's pleasure in sex. The vagina basically reverts to its prepubescent shape: narrower, shorter, dryer, less elastic, with thin walls that tear easily and are prone to infection. The libido may also dry up, if only because sex becomes painful. While many women are spared these problems in their 50s, the odds are they will strike to some degree within a decade of menopause...
...books comes from his ability to regard the oldest profession in the world (the words "I love you") with a youthful sense of playfulness and discovery. Here he offers disquisitions on the "love right angle," "psychological hypochondria" and "jollyism" and likens the self, in quick succession, to a tumble dryer, a weather pattern and a TV set. The pages of the novel are sprinkled with diagrams, floor plans of the heart and even a picture of a can of Campbell's soup-which reflect, in their way, the games and strategies we practice in love. "I love you," De Botton...
Freak? We think not. Rest assured, Jay, it could've happened to anyone. But the girl who put detergent in the dryer...now that's a freak...