Word: leash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment, in the very sort of Park Avenue co-op apartment that so obsessed the Mayor...twelve-foot ceilings...two wings, one for the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants who own the place and one for the help... Sherman McCoy was kneeling in his front hall trying to put a leash on a dachsund. The floor was a deep green marble, and it went on and on. It led to a five-foot walnut staircase that swept up in a sumptuous curve to the floor above. It was the sort of apartment the mere thought of which ignites flames of greed...
...When you're older," replies an elder, and the highly colored tale begins. May carries a slice of salami, and gets trailed by ten potential pets who just happen to follow her home. The answer is no. Desperately, she goes everywhere with a roller skate on a leash, to prove that she is capable of caring for something besides herself. Along the way, she learns a double moral: the value of patience and of parents. Aesop never said it better...
...plan for dealing with the problem is greatly flawed. If more than 20 percent of a college's students were to default on their loans, the college would lose all federal student aid. This should provide enough incentive for most colleges to keep their students on a short leash...
Harvard quickly retaliated, putting a leash on Yale at the 31:49 minute mark. "At the time [of the Yale goal]," Co-Captain Karin Pinezich said, "I told myself that we just have to score one more goal than we would otherwise have...
...close look at child leashes explains the problem with the recent child leash phenomenon: I don't like them. I was a kid, and I was a pain in the neck sometimes. Memories of what it felt like to careen around like a pinball while my mother was trying to buy groceries make my emotions twinge when I see a kid on a leash. My head tells me child leashes are a small thing and there is a reason for them. My heart tells me to put up a sign in the Square that says, "Children must keep their parents...