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Maybe I don't remember it correctly. My father might have picked the planks up at the Somerville Lumber outlet and lugged the wood home in his pickup. He could have been sanding them down in the garage for all I know. It took him forever to refurbish and nail the planks into the walls of our cold spare room. But after a year and a half, for my 12th Christmas, my parents gave me a new bedroom, a brand-new, wood-paneled room with a skylight and electric heating and wall-to-wall carpeting...
...brittle to read. But what amazed my father most were the beams he found above our heads. The room, he said, had an old-fashioned cathedral ceiling. Where the old beams crossed, someone had driven a short, wooden post to hold them together. There was not one nail in may room. When the first gardener and his family moved into my house, there were no such things as nails...
...finally driving the last nail into the coffin of Scheme Z," said Kerasiotes...
Finally, after weeks of flipping through the Globe's sports pages, my search came to an end. I realized that enmity towards Wyatt Earp's home state stems from an evil, deep-seated jealousy over Kansas' recent athletic successes. For, to nail the hard truth to the door, folks, Kansas' athletes have been grabbing all the headlines these days. Here are just six of the hundreds of potential examples...
...propitious time. Korea is indeed taking a pivotal position on the world stage. Because North Korea's communist dictator Kim Il Sung nears death, one of the last communist holdouts could soon enter negotiations with its southern neighbor to reunify the country and drive yet another, perhaps the final, nail in the Cold War coffin...