Word: foils
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...definitely think it’s a warmup,” junior foil Emily Cross said. “It’s kind of a preview of a lot of the good teams we are going to be competing against. Our results don’t have any impact on the season, so it’s a nice way to gauge where we are and figure out what we need to work...
...employee at Oona’s Experienced Clothing urges shopper and traveling nurse Kyle M. Griffith to consider yellow pipe cleaners and foil. Griffith’s wanna-be costume? “Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Showers.” Surprisingly, such creativity is the exception rather than the rule among Oona’s shoppers. Hollywood-themed costumes abound: “Everybody’s pirate wants to be Johnny Depp,” says store owner Kathleen M. White. Sunday morning alone she sold two Marie Antoinette costumes, inspired by Sofia Coppola?...
...chewing a mouthful of paan leaves when I stop by. Jain sits beside a display of boxes bearing names like "Star Circus" and "Silver Rain," their lids peeled off to reveal an assortment of small incendiaries: cones, wheels, pellets, some of them wrapped in paper, others in shiny silver foil like exotic candy...
...piece of junk trailing the shuttle, and several others seen floating by the shuttle's windows, might never be definitively identified. Astronauts described the objects variously as a plastic baggie, some copper wire, two ring-shaped items and a piece of foil or shimmering cloth. NASA is guessing the largest bit was a piece of pliable plastic used as a tile shim, which could have dropped off the shuttle during a test firing of the shuttle's maneuvering jets...
...best-seller too, reaching the top ten non-fiction paperbacks list two weeks in a row. The result of months of investigation, including thousands of interviews, the report and its comix adaptation examine the origins of the plot of September 11, government efforts (or the lack thereof) to foil the plot, a timeline of the events of the day, and conclusions about what went wrong and how be better prepared for the future. The 585-page original has been reduced to 130 pages by Sid Jacobson, who, along with illustrator Erni Colon, boils down the contents into digest form without...