Word: lint
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...Clint Murchison Jr., who invested his father's oil money in a myriad of ways, many ill-fated: "[C]lint sank millions into deals on handshakes, on napkins, at urinals, risking vast amounts on investments he seldom too time to study...A solid 8 or 10 percent bored him. By the mid-1970s, he simply couldn't be bothered with any investment that didn't promise tripling his return or more. Ttere was the ten million he threw away on an Oklahoma plant that was to convert cattle manure into national gas. Clint named it the Calorific Reclamation Anaerobic process...
...names are narcotic: Skagway, Unalakleet, the Hazy Islands, Turnagain Arm. Saying ''Talkeetna'' aloud clears a city man's mind of lint. Whispering ''Aniakchak'' cures nervous debility. Think ''Last month, off Ketchikan'' while futilized in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway, and all the other cars disappear. Zap, there they go. Last month, off Ketchikan, from an altitude of about 1,000 ft., Bush Pilot Dale Clark spotted something glinting in the water of Carroll Inlet. He pointed. ''Down there, see?'' His passenger, a sightseer from the Lower 48, saw nothing but salt water. Clark, a burly, bearded...
...Cambridge police will draw from a group of youth volunteers organized by the city’s license commission, said the police spokesman, who did not give his name. Elizabeth Lint, the commission’s executive officer, said that group had yet to be assembled...
...bonnet. By the end of the hour she has finished sewing the rectangle of fabric that will become a thick, ruff-like collar that supports the back of the model’s neck. At 5 p.m., Hays sets down her partially-finished pieces and breaks out the lint roller. A layer of white dust, the remnants of the sacrificial teddy bear, covers everything in the room. The design must be clean so it can be fitted to the model, who is soon to arrive. Hays and her model arrive at the Sanctum in the nick of time, the latter...
...right after it had become co-ed. It was sort of closed off in many different ways, stuck in 1953,” she says.She tells the story of a colleague at Princeton who said he would write a paper on the taxation of belly button lint if it would get him published.“I remember thinking to myself, ‘I wouldn’t’,” she says.Goldin says that, as a woman, she was not as competitive as her male colleagues.“There was a time when I probably...