Word: peeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Step Four: Peel open i.d. He started from the bottom edge and pulled the pieces far enough apart to reveal the sticker. A razor blade was perfect for scraping the old label off the card and the clear plastic cover...
...Sunday morning, the bakers work in ankle-deep drifts of cornmeal, wielding wooden peel sticks to retrieve loaves six at a time from the back corners of the ovens. The crew is polyglot and pan-ethnic. Yolanda, a Puerto Rican, says she is a "born-again Italian." When Carlos, who is tending the 260 loaves in the brick oven, is asked where he comes from, he looks blank. Johnnie-Mo, a bona fide Italian American who grew up around the corner, comes over to translate. He puts his face close, concentrates, then shouts, "Town! In Peru! Newark, Elizabeth, Kearny! Your...
DEWITT IS NOT A MAN WITHOUT A sense of humor. But some things are simply not funny. So when Dewitt rose from bed the other day, tripped over a banana peel, slid across a floorful of marbles, stepped on a rollerskate, tumbled down the staircase and fell into the swimming pool, he was not amused. It was all so derivative, for one thing. Not to mention the intense physical pain...
...WATCH THE TEFLON PEEL from Ronald Reagan's presidency, there is no need to bicker about the relative venality of the various crimes his Administration committed. The President has broken faith with the American people. He swore to uphold and to defend the Constitution but instead led his Administration on a course that shows gross disrespect for the rule of law. As disastrous as President Reagan's tenure has been, the legacy of his Administration will not be its short-sighted policies, but a perversion of the fundamental process of government that will not soon be forgotten...
...years; airports are crowded with Soviet assault helicopters and fighter aircraft, and ports provide havens for Soviet warships. Despite this mighty arsenal, some Angolan troops are in rags and many are demoralized. Observes a church worker who has lived in the country three years: "When things get tough, they peel off their uniforms and take to the bush...