Word: feet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your swap leave you feeling so good about it? "It's very intimate being in someone else's home and life," says Lori Horne, who was an avid swapper before she bought the Intervac network 10 years ago. But intimacy can cut both ways. While your guests have their feet up on your ottoman, gazing at the photographs of your children, sipping coffee from your "World's Greatest Dad" mug, you may be frantically calling home to ask why their washing machine keeps spinning your clothes but never wets them. (They have thoughtfully left the instructions out, but they...
...adjustments that allow them to cover more altitude," he says. The Iraqis fire usually with no electronic guidance, which would sound an alarm in U.S. cockpits. Often the only alert pilots have is the silent pop of charcoal-gray puffs of smoke from exploding artillery hundreds or thousands of feet below. U.S. pilots say they attack only after Iraqi forces threaten them...
Rubin brings to Citi stature that is bound to attract top clients. Known to occasionally stroll around Treasury in stocking feet, Rubin has a low-key informality that could work wonders in Citi's sharp-elbowed executive suite. In the Clinton Administration, Rubin dominated internal policy debates on matters ranging from estate taxes to relations with China because of his strength as a cautious consensus builder, not in spite...
...justify. Back in his native Goose Village, his parents arranged his marriage to the peasant woman Shuyu so that they would have someone to nurse them through their final illnesses while Lin pursued his medical career far away in the army. Nearly everything about Shuyu appalls Lin, particularly her feet, which were bound in the old-fashioned way during her childhood. "This was the New China," Lin muses. "Who would look up to a young woman with bound feet?" He sees her only during the 12 days he is on leave each year; after the birth of their daughter, some...
...when I ran, but I had been too frightened to think. So I kept it in my pocket, told no one; it was my first secret." The unyielding and unnecessary simplification of language appears forced. The symbolism, like the egg, appears artificial, and Ilana's stories of women without feet and goblins in the woods reek of a paternalistic treatment of the intangible folklore past of the "Old Country...