Word: shave
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While I was tutoring some third-graders last week, one of them asked me if I was a "man." I don't know, I said, and asked them what they thought. The answers varied from "Well, you're really tall" to "You have to shave every day" to "You could beat up my dad." But all ended with the conclusion that...
Indeed, that is the situation this month. Tempel-Tuttle recently swept past Earth, swinging around the sun in February, and headed back toward the outer solar system. As a result, Earth will come within 700,000 miles of the center of the stream--a close shave by astronomical standards. And because Tempel-Tuttle orbits the sun in the opposite direction of Earth, the meteoroids will hurtle in at a closing speed of some 160,000 m.p.h...
...Just from my few years of being in the army, Iwill not go to work unless I shave," Costa says."I will not go to work unless my belt buckle islined up with the buttons on my shirt...
...general, if you are going to stay put for least three years and can shave your rate a half-point without paying closing costs, refinancing now makes sense. I would first consider a loan with no closing costs. Sure, you could get a lower interest rate and lower monthly payment by paying thousands of dollars in points and fees up front. And if you can recover those costs in less than half the time you'll be staying in the house (but no longer than four years), it's not a bad choice. Also, if you plan to move...
Prince Charles is hawkishly protective of his adolescent sons William and Harry, so he was royally peeved last week when the London newspaper the Mirror ran an article about 14-year-old Harry's first shave. It didn't help that what Harry had shaved was his head. It seems the young Prince enlisted some chums to help him achieve the close-cropped hairstyle of his soccer hero Michael Owen. Alas, his classmates proved to be sub-par stylists, and a barber near Harry's boarding school was called upon to salvage the operation, relieving the Prince of his remaining...