Word: sandwiched
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Janis fished some sandwich bags from her pack, and Jeff began collecting pieces of eggshell, olive brown flecked with mocha spots, membrane gooey on the white inside. Somebody with a micrometer would check the specimens for thickness. In the days of DDT, the shells thinned dangerously, though not fatally. In the days of acid rain, one worries−without evidence, so far−that the shells might thin again...
...never knew economic difficulty. I remember wandering around Cambridge for days without spending a dollar, except on books and movies. I had no money, but I also needed none tuition, room, and board were paid. I never bought clothes, never had cleaning bills, never ate out except at a sandwich shop called Elsie's, and traveled exclusively by thumb and backpack...
...seem unfair, and we did grumble, but we could only entertain boys in our rooms for two hours on two Sunday afternoons a year. Off-campus houses offered much more informality. One could share a sandwich with a boy in the ancient kitchens there and feel a little more natural than in the dorm calling rooms...
...told me why they call it a Sebastian Sandwich. Nobody bothered to let me know about the housing lottery, or when they decide to lock the gates to the Yard or how to cross the street in Harvard Square, or when you are supposed to start writing your exam--when they tell you to, or right when they hand you the blue book...
Prices in American currency are extremely low. Pravds costs about three cents, an ice cream sandwich a dime; a package of cigarettes, a quarter; subway entrance costs only five cents; and a voluminous bottle of horrible beer goes for about...