Word: pocketable
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...less than one cent) per 1,000 words for the rest of the book. In other words, it costs about one-tenth of the paperback price to read a book online. Right now, the company takes half of the readers' payment, and the other half goes into the writers' pocket...
...doctor's specialty: "That was one way you could distinguish a surgeon from another doctor. Internal medicine residents typically draped the stethoscopes over their necks. Some anesthesiologists hung it from a holster on the hip. Surgeons, Stephanie was told in medical school, kept the stethoscope in the coat pocket...
...cranking out “Up From the Grave He Arose,” I was well on my way to good spirits. Everybody around me started to pivot and scoop for hymnals. And I was already humming away as I, too, slid my hands around the pew pocket. But there was nary a hymnal. I straightened back up, I looked left, I looked right. I even rocked onto my toes to peer down the far ends of the pews. All empty. Daddy didn’t have a hymnal either but he was looking on with Mrs. Hannway...
...some interesting narrative angles, as in “Listen to Your Friends,” where the protagonist wakes up from a coma and tries to unravel what happened to him (I’ll give you a hint—it involves a note in his pocket which reads “I don’t ever want to see you again”), but most of the lyrical content vacillates between drivel and schmaltz. Yet in order to maintain commercial success, perhaps NFG need do little more than tweak their music for an era unenthused with...
...gets his pocket picked; Pinick takes it all the way, chance for 3 pt play. He converts. Harvard 35, Yale...