Word: frights
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...wasn’t long before Boe outgrew what the community college had to offer, and one of her professors encouraged her to apply to continuing education programs at local colleges like Smith and Mount Holyoke. Her initial reaction? Fright. “I’d rather take a trailer into Manhattan during rush hour,” she remembers thinking...
...pass this fiver to the hot dog guy," or if at Yankee Stadium, "Hey, Buddy, take that Sox cap off or I'll take it off for ya!". In this instance, I turn and see a man's face very close to mine, an expression between urgency and fright upon it. I'm surprised above all else. "Come," he says. "It was your daughter that was hit with the foul...
...outbursts: "It were eff this and ess that and she would blow their adjectival brains out." Ned's bursts of poetry are suitable for all ages: "At night every river has a secret twin a ghost of air washing above the living water down towards the sea." Or "A fright of blood red parrots flared & swept through the khaki forest." Ned apologizes for his unconventional style, saying, "I never learned my parsing." His readers will acquit him of that charge...
Here's how it would work if, for example, Pullman issued $100 million worth of King bonds. The money raised, minus commissions, would go directly to the fright master himself in the form of a loan. That means, Mr. King, that it won't be taxable income. Investors who buy the bonds would get the principal back over about 10 years, plus perhaps 8% annual interest, from King's royalties. Need references, Mr. King? In the past three years, Pullman Inc. has announced deals involving more than $200 million worth of bonds secured by the works of not only that...
...Charles Vinick, sitting in the chopper overhead, was disappointed, he didn't show it. Instead, he was upbeat about the progress made since Keiko saw his first wild cousins a few months ago--and fled in fright. Vinick is executive vice president of the California-based Ocean Futures, a nonprofit environmental organization headed by Jean-Michel Cousteau (son of Jacques) that has taken over the job of returning Keiko to the wild. Ocean Futures sees this as a "labor of the heart" but hopes it will also help raise public interest in marine issues. "The knowledge we are acquiring with...