Word: feathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prudence, the ladies live, appropriately, in an anonymous village. In this book Pym places them a bit awkwardly in the academic setting of Oxford, where she herself was educated. Miss Doggett is about the same, a tactless, sanctimonious bully robed in purple and decorated with bespoke hats. The feather-light Crampton Hodnet is about three brief romances, two of which Miss Doggett tries to meddle with and one that she misses completely, although it involves her companion and the curate who boards with...
...group, along with the differences there are the bonding similarities of the central problem: alcohol." Some assemblies are dominated by a single profession. In Washington, for example, one, made up almost entirely of IRS employees, calls itself the "1040s." Another, "911," consists of policemen. "Birds of a Feather" is a gathering for airline pilots...
Other winners include Schick, which lags 3-to-1 behind Gillette in the U.S. razor-blade market but leads its archrival 7-to-1 in Japan. Schick introduced a twin-blade cartridge in 1972, one year before Gillette, and has an edge over even Feather, the biggest Japanese company in the field...
...yumminess--put Steve's and Herrell's to shame. The best shop on The Cape is on 6A in Dennis village: The Ice Cream Smuggler, where the Oreo is flush with cookies and the Moch.. Chip and Chocolate Chocolate Almond will drive you wild.11Fishing on Colorado's Red Feather Lakes...
...craftsmen. Slate-roofed towers jut from the mountainside, the possible burial sites of the elite. Below them are 16 round multistoried buildings constructed of slate, wood and mudlike mortar; many of the structures are decorated with stone carvings of birds, animals, geometric designs and human stick figures capped by feather headdresses. Colorful paint survives on some walls, and large swatches of fabric were found scattered among the burial sites. Terraced fields sculpted into the slope indicate sophisticated agricultural techniques. Perhaps most amazing, says Lennon, 3-ft.-high wood carvings on some building eaves have weathered the humid climate so well...