Word: flushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After pumping iron to flush his muscles with blood, Remar slipped into a skimpy orange Speedo, donned a straw hat and strutted the beach before a line of spring-break beauties, who beamed and clapped in approval. Consensus on the flutter factor: 8 or 9, which is pretty amazing for someone who justifiably rated his hunk index at 0 a year ago. Even the college guys hooted and howled in agreement. An older fellow, Philip Finn, who was on vacation from Plains, Pa., was also awed, but confided to me, "What I'm interested in watching is whether he keeps...
...father was a bit of a tyrant," Bette recalls. "He would flush the girls' makeup down the toilet. He'd lock my sister Susan out of the house when she came home too late. He taught my younger brother Daniel, who is brain damaged, to read and write by hammering and screaming at him until he got it. Every afternoon. None of us wanted to be in the house. But Daniel did learn, and it's made a big difference in his life. It gave him freedom. My father always thought I was a little odd. He never chose...
...market then began to dipsy-doodle, going through unprecedented one-day drops and climbs, including the worst ever single-day fall on Sept. 11 (86.61 points). The eye-popping volatility of the market was made possible by the steadily increasing computerization that allowed hundreds of millions of dollars to flush through the markets at the push of a button. But for all the action, the Dow managed to spend most of its time in the region of about...
...There's a variety of possibilities--what the study is going to do is flush out the costs and benefits to the community and to the developers," said Duehay...
Workers from Westinghouse and Transformer Systems, Inc. will flush polychlorinated byphenyls (PCB's) from the library's central transformers, which lower the voltage of electrical current that enters the building, said John E. Cady, the assistant manager of Facilities Maintenance...