Word: rear
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Coupland has mastered the art of the precisely timed witticism, the understatement and the random comic comparison. His language dances around its subjects, as when Richard discovers that the end of the world has come and "an adrenaline fang bites the rear of his neck." Coupland extends his metaphor of human infringement on nature with the words he uses to describe the post-apocalyptic world: "The darkening sky is becoming a warm, dead Xerox and the winds blow forcefully as though aimed from a hair blower," and "Below them, the fire on the sloping neighborhoods burns like a million...
They are fairly certain that after passing through a rear entrance to Stoughton South, the man apparently walked into Soltis's room through an unlockedhandicap door. It is not known how the intruderentered the building, which requires key-cardaccess...
...begin with the tale of the fin, its rise and fall from the American car and the American Dream. The design staff at General Motors copied the first fins off a top-secret U.S. Air Force plane (the Lockheed P-38), quietly grafting them as little bumps on the rear of the 1948 Cadillac. The next year's model was a best seller, and as the 1950s progressed, the fins proliferated. They appeared on Oldsmobiles, on Buicks, on Chryslers, with Fords finally sprouting them in 1957. The fins, fickle as Paris hemlines, grew wide and high, rising...
...Cambridge resident reported that he was confronted by a suspect known to him while he was standing at the intersection of JFK and Mt. Auburn Streets. The suspect allegedly kicked the victim in the legs and the rear and punched him in the nose...
...Cambridge resident reported that an unknown person removed an oval-shaped white marble table top from his rear yard...