Word: rimming
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...living quarters) are uniformly Georgian, rising into golden spires out of the clutter of crooked streets, Harvard has sampled the whole history of U.S. architecture, from colonial to Bui-finch, to H. H. Richardson, to Walter Gropius. The unofficial part of the Yard-the shops and stores that rim it-are a jumble all their own. Bookshops and soda fountains jockey for position; haircuts, haberdashery and history are all for sale. There is a pharmacy that once doled out pills to Longfellow and Emerson; there is a bank that has been called the "most literate bank in the world" (among...
...Going home, the patient glimpses the tremor of a leaf in the afternoon sun and sets his heart on something at once simpler and more complicated: "I want the second tree from the corner just as it stands." Several of White's other tales roll along this same rim of near hysteria. In "The Hour of Letdown," a man enters a bar, plunks down a mechanical brain, and orders rye & water for two. After ingesting a couple of drinks, the wonder machine unnerves the barflies by multiplying 10,862 by 99 in a split second, then caps the stunt...
...leap he palmed the ball in his ham-sized right hand, faked a pass, swung the ball behind his back into his left hand, then took his shot toward the basket-all before his feet touched the floor. The ball dropped through without even touching the rim, and the crowd of 13,837 in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden broke into cheers. Most of them had come to watch Cousy perform. And for this kind of impromptu razzle-dazzle performance, Cousy makes a top National Basketball Association salary of $20,000 a year...
...three children have won innumerable ribbons in the Pilger Valley Gophers 4-H club, and the two oldest are noted locally for their musical talent. This year, nevertheless, his wife began urging that they move away from their half section on the Elk Mountains' rim-life was hard, their three-room cabin was uncomfortable. Last week it looked as though the Kerchevals were licked; the cabin burned down. But on the next day a neighbor brought them temporary housing: two sheep wagons stocked with food and clothing and beds all neatly made up. They had offers of 22 stoves...
Homage. The Queen sat motionless, her twin scepters held upright, her brown tresses peeping out from the rim of the lustrous Crown. From the choir rose the anthem, Be Strong and of Good Courage, and Elizabeth II, escorted by her nobles, moved to the high throne...