Word: following
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Omanses, for their part, trade for both flexibility and the unexpected rewards of the exchange system. Several years ago, they wanted to follow a planned visit to their grown children in Boston with a vacation in Vermont. They contacted a Colorado woman, Joanna Lyn Merriman, who had a second home in Vermont. The timing wasn't convenient for Merriman, who banked the swap and eventually transferred her "credit" to her best friend, whose husband was in the last stages of cancer. "They stayed 10 days," Jan Omans recalls, "and after he died, his wife wrote that her husband had wanted...
Though his vision seemed "far-fetched," he said, "so was that of a united Europe" when originally proposed. Papandreou then continued to delineate the procedure that Greece hoped to follow...
...whistling over classical recordings with the solo instrument removed. "He whistled at my wedding this summer," Vaux reveals. But because of some problem with the sound system, he had to whistle a Bach piece a cappella. "He did it just right, but without the accompaniment, it's hard to follow...It just left everyone very confused...
...follow her quickly back to the entrance, and just as the salespeople's sigh of relief becomes almost audible, she turns around abruptly to face the rest of the store and explains: "Whenever you enter a store, you instinctively go to the right. I don't know why, I didn't realize it myself until I read it somewhere. But for some reason people always go right...
During a game against the Army Air Forces, Joe DiMaggio sent a Patkin pitch into the night. As DiMaggio trotted around the bases, Patkin, on the spur of the moment, decided to follow him and mimic...