Word: rackingly
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...usually put it where the person in the box office can see it. She's delighted to keep an eye on it." A motorcycle cop once gave Sweater Designer Pamela Colin a personal escort as she wove through dense traffic with boxes of sweaters strapped to her baggage rack. George Franklin Jr., executive director of the nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations, even pedals in dinner clothes. And Textile Designer George Roper takes his bike up in the elevator of his office building...
...Foreign markets, of course, have a lot of catching up to do. Western Europe's middle class is broadening, and its working class, though still woefully underpaid by U.S. standards, is rapidly working up to the point where, as General Motors Chairman Frederic G. Donner says, "the bicycle rack is being replaced by the parking...
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...
...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...