Word: rackingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next morning, shortly after 7 a.m., a pajama-clad Hemingway went downstairs and from the gun rack took his favorite gun, which, like almost everything he owned, was not merely a thing but a ceremonial object. A twelve-gauge, double-barreled shotgun inlaid with silver, it had been specially made for Hemingway. He put the gun barrel in his mouth and pulled both triggers. The blast blew his whole head away except for his mouth, his chin, and part of his cheeks...
...salute for your straight reporting of Mrs. Kennedy's costumes on her trip abroad. Thank heavens she has enough respect for herself, her position and country to undertake the most tiresome chore of fittings, hairdressers, etc. Selecting something "off the rack" and pin-curling her hair before retiring would have been less bothersome. Regarding her purchase of a French costume, it was a fine diplomatic gesture toward an ally who has proved most difficult. And lest we forget, Jackie's clothes did not make her; she enhanced them...
...equipment: an indoor barbecue set and an outdoor barbecue set, a box of charcoal and a box of pots and pans, cocktail glasses, an ice chest, a bottle of gin, a bottle of bourbon, a bottle of blended whisky, two deck chairs, four books about the stock market, a rack of record albums, a set of golf clubs, crab nets, a Coleman lamp for flounder fishing, a football, two tennis rackets, playing cards, a hi-fi set, beach sandals, a straw hat-and a set of military uniforms. Then, mixing himself an oldfashioned, he settled down to begin...
...through, honey," she mapped to one salesman who meandered over his wares. Came a dress that appealed to her: "It's heavy as lead, but I love it." Came another, pushed too hard by the salesman: "Yes, I see how lovely it looks on the rack. You can just leave it there." At Alper-Schwartz she examined a pale green brocade: "That's a good mother-of-the-bride." At Ceil Chapman, she picked up a beaded taupe silk chiffon sheath (retail price: $395). At Estévez, she bought a few items that the trade describes...
...world's other great libraries, which believe in the closed-door policy, the New York Public Library delivers books to anyone in ten minutes flat. Each day it answers 10,000 questions-over the counter, by mail and by phone-and for the answers it can rack its brain in 3,000 languages, including 600 African dialects...