Word: parer
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Flakes Burdened with parer's who compare their SAT scores like golf handicaps, the flakes respond in various ways. Some ostentatiously unload home computers on the first day and effectively guarantee a summer of alienation right there. Others talk only about science fiction, and some boast prodigious drug habits. These are the kids who read the newspapers and know every hatted of the Vietnan War. Many come from Bronx High School of Science, where they win debating trophies or excel at ping pong...
Fortunately, in everything except babies, early Shaker craftsmen were astonishingly productive. They invented a flat broom, an apple parer, a circular saw and many other labor-saving devices. Even now, their spare yet elegant furniture and utensils seem so modern that they are sought after and copied by architects and designers. Shaker villages were oases of austere grace and functionalism. "Wherever you go, you feel that you are beyond the realm of hurry," wrote one visitor in 1877. "There is no restlessness, or fret of business, or anxiety; it is as if the work was done...
...awarded the prize to Cadiz, Ohio (pop., 2,597). Reason: it "has had more citizens of wide renown than any other community under ten thousand population." Some famed Cadizians: Critic Percy Hammond, Cinemactor Clark Gable, Robert P., Charles S. and Thomas A. Scott, inventors of ''the peach parer, the pea viner and the pea podder...
...point out that Brig.-General Francis La Jeune Parer, chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, was a bachelor (soltero) he called him a solitaria (tape-worm...
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