Word: hubcap
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...driving 75 miles an hour on the interstate, listening to a radio report that said that Tonya Harding beat up her boyfriend and banged him on the head with a hubcap...
...admit I had thrown the first hubcap, aiming it like a Frisbee in the direction of the Christian right in South Carolina. But does that make me... Satan? (On the other hand, it is true that I was trained in high school by the Jesuits...
...simple toe-tapping, knee-slapping pleasure to the show. From brooms to newspapers to matchboxes to Zippos, the percussionists take the show to new levels of creativity. A rustled trash bag morphs into an extraordinary orchestra of sound. A routine sweeping becomes a rhythmic blast. Set in a hubcap-adorned industrial-metallic garage, the three female and five male cast members turn the beat-heavy sound into something more than just a tribute to the powers of rhythm...
...effort has not resulted in any apparent modernization of their deployed strategic force or any new nuclear weapons deployment." The Cox report errs, explains Bates Gill, a China expert at the Brookings Institution, by "equating acquisition with capability, period." China has been more like a car thief stealing a hubcap here, a fuel-injection system there--but that doesn't mean it can build a Mercedes from the bits and pieces. Although no one minimizes the possible future impact of China's aggressive acquisitions, almost every expert in Washington and Beijing says it will take the struggling nation decades...
...made to be compact, and because of this, it requires rotating a small lever for approximately 45 minutes in order to raise the car one inch off the ground. Eventually, I got the old wheel off, and I only sliced my right hand once while trying to remove the hubcap...