Word: polished
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hands, I noticed, were extraordinarily soft. The nails on his fingers were battered and clipped short?all but the pinkie, which had been painted with a delicate sheen of polish...
...brothers moved on to their next customer, and I was left abandoned, the polish still drying on my nails...
...suddenly remembered that all those bodies I maneuvered past had feet, and all the female feet wore nail polish. No woman I saw in Mumbai was so poor that there wasn’t some disintegrating color on her toes, some trace of shimmer. Personal grooming, which had always struck me as a waste of time, took on a new character. Getting your nails done wasn’t selfish, it was a kind of neighborhood beautification. I was living in a city of 40 million filthy, scuffed, aching feet, but all across Mumbai women were getting pedicures?on Malabar...
...like to quote the great Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz: “What is poetry that does not save nations or people?” Most poets don’t really think about that. In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty. So there was that feeling of responsibility...
...your calculators out—it took just five minutes for 10 people to polish off over 40 pounds of sautéed spinach Saturday afternoon at b.good’s fifth annual Garlicky Green Eating Championship...