Word: rub
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...face with the slithering monster. Instead, it was a small army of Thai matrons engaged in one of the country's most popular pastimes?trying to discern lucky lottery numbers by swirling powder over the bumps and ridges of the broad palm trunks. To me, it looked guaranteed to rub the Naga the wrong...
...fish tanks and lazy sea otters were it not for one feature: heavy petting. Of dolphins, that is. The aquarium offers a variety of "dolphin contact" activities like the one I witnessed at the outdoor pool. Five rubber-suited visitors waded hip-deep into the water to touch, rub and coo over a handful of trained dolphins, including one that resembled a small whale. The idea of touching animals with big teeth freaks me out, so I retreated to the relative calm of the indoor aquarium. But the interior was no more soothing. Just as I was stifling a yawn...
With the regular hosing, John’s left foot may be cleaner than one would suspect. All in all, it’s probably not a good place to put a sandwich, but perhaps not so dangerous to give a little rub...
Neither Rose nor Fitzpatrick have complained publicly about their respective situations and therein lies the rub. Murphy has made it clear that an unsettled quarterback situation is not ideal, but that as long as Harvard is winning and nobody’s unhappy or ineffective, the final four games could continue the trend of a QB controversy...
After an inexplicably fatuous introduction that sounds like Joseph Conrad's Mr. Kurtz singing "Nobody knows the carnage I've seen" (he writes, "I have, at what cost I do not yet know...done my best to rub my own nose in the horror of the world"), Rieff settles into hard, intelligent analysis...