Word: pinnings
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...reporter) stand in the dreary brown and green, linoleum-tiled hall, the flickering fluorescent lamp reflecting off his short dry-look, blonde hair and his noncommittal gray eyes. And of course, the blue pin-stripe shirt, the navy club tie, the not-quite pointy black shoes...
...making, sod breaking, sugaring off, housebuilding (log, sod and frame), threshing, ice cutting and a hundred other practical matters. She offers assorted facts on such subjects as homestead law, horse breaking and how to manage a hoop skirt. The odd word may mystify (pieplant, claim shack, prove out, picket pin, beholden, boughten), but the prose is straightforward enough for Hemingway...
...allegedly concentrate their spying on war protesters. Dramatizing his worries about computers, Ervin displayed two props: a 1,245-page Bible and a two-inch-square piece of microfilm, each containing 773,746 words. "Someone remarked that this meant the Constitution could be reduced to the size of a pin-head," he drawled. "I said I thought maybe that was what they had done with it in the Executive Branch because some of those officials could not see it with their naked eyes...
...peanut butter and candy, which for $5 would be sent to their sons and daughters when they crammed for final exams. Vittert's drive for individuality also made him campus handball and pingpong champion-and a sartorial iconoclast: though he has his hair cut short and dresses in pin-stripe gray suits, he almost never wears socks. "I like to feel my toes squirm around," he says...
Sutherland enters silently through the bedroom door. He has just changed out of a dark, pin-striped suit and into a pair of brown, flaired tweeds and a black jersey. He introduces himself in a warm, quiet, almost inaudible voice...