Word: hemming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...months since the disputed June election, and the gathering had the air of a reunion, an army regrouping post-battle, behind friendly lines. We were safe, so we thought, high up in this mountain suburb. The walls that would later hem us in seemed to offer warmth and comfort...
...either cheese-grater roughness or elegant shimmer - or, oddly, both. And the way it slopes forward in its upper and lower portions gives the building's principal façade an elastic thrust that's both graceful and forceful. At street level, steel trusses appear from beneath the lower hem of the screen like sturdy legs beneath a swelling skirt, a gesture that calls to mind the "Fred and Ginger" building in Prague that was completed in 1995 by Frank Gehry, an L.A. architect Mayne admires...
...laughs and leans into me. She traces her tongue between my lips. “This’ll be fun,” she says. She leans back and gathers up the hem of the mesh tank in her other hand. “Just as long as you play along. Promise...
...Alberta Ferretti sleeveless embellished tulle dress with tiered fringe hem (Alberta Ferretti boutique, Los Angeles...
...they want in life). One day, though, the cheese disappears. The mice (Sniff and Scurry) instinctively understand that the paradigm has shifted--they need to adapt and look for cheese in a different place. So they do, and they find New Cheese. The humans are more resistant to change. Hem, the tale's dunderhead, indignantly bellows, "Who moved my cheese?" and refuses to accept reality. Haw too is initially resistant but comes to understand that he has to leave his comfort zone to survive and thrive. Voil! New Cheese awaits...