Word: scraper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind. Not necessarily because it's that tall (nothing compared to New York City or Chicago), but because it has the most militant, bitter and angry security staff on earth. Of course, the Hancock Building's brochure trumpets praises for New England's tallest sky scraper: "come aboard the express elevator and feel the excitement build as you are whisked 60 floors straight up to the high point of your Boston visit." On a clear day, if it is possible to push through drooling third graders gluing there faces to the glass, the observatory has a fantastic view...
SKIERS KNOW THE SOUND. IT'S LIKE AN ice scraper cutting through the glaze on a windshield, only it gets louder and louder, and it is accompanied by the whoops and wails of the truly possessed. Upon hearing it, the smart skier moves off to the side of the trail. He or she knows that an avalanche of snowboarders is coming...
...remarks, dismissively) with an eye for the shape of the land as it was in the Cretaceous, when rivers from the Rockies flowed through eastern Montana into a vast central seaway. At one point he kneels and works at some potentially good thing with a car mechanic's gasket scraper, then sweeps off the debris with a whisk broom. A visitor asks what he has found. "I haven't got a clue," he says, wrapping the pieces of bone in toilet paper. "That's why I'm taking it." Elsewhere he stops at an unusual fossil spotted the night before...