Word: shiner
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...Games shook. The world shivered. But a little embroidery work can improve a crown. Louganis came back to win the springboard, making a pedestal of the platform. As unafraid as ever of sentimentality, he was also as slyly pleased with his tonsure as a boy might be with a shiner...
...enzymes (to speed up the conversion of starch into sugar) and some baker's yeast (to bring about the fermentation). After fermentation is complete, which takes less than a week, the mess is dumped into a still, where the alcohol is boiled off. Basically just moon shiner's gear, the device consists of a steel drum with a chimney-like funnel and a condensing vat to catch the distilled alcohol. A bushel of vegetable matter can yield two to three gallons of fuel. A small still may produce ten gallons...
...edition of the dictionary, the first since 1965, dropped 3.500 obsolete titles, such as bowling-pin setters, but added 2.100 new ones. To comply with the equal employment opportunity law, cataloguers tortuously rewrote some old job titles. A bat boy became a bat handler, a shoeshine boy a shoe shiner, and a draftsman a drafter. But the title of job No. 159.647-022, someone who "parades across stage to provide background for a chorus line," remained unchanged. Even bureaucrats could not swallow "show person...
...sergeant in an army canteen, everybody gets some: Mr. Gats gets some of Carroway's, Carroway is made to speak what had been silent observation, Daisy and Gatsby even get to act out some of Jordan Baker's. Further, the movie hardhits you with scenery, the shining shots like shiner punches at Fitzgerald. And it fumbles facial close-ups--as if a picture of a face, especially a face as blank as Redford's, could tell of the mind...
...When Shiner was hurt in the 49ers contest, Lee was the man Van Brocklin turned to, and he promptly moved the team downfield for two quick field goals. Though the Falcons lost once more (13-9), Lee somehow seemed to have turned them into a team. The next week, with Lee still calling signals, Atlanta buried the Chicago Bears 46-6. The Falcons have been soaring ever since. Going into last weekend, they had won seven in a row and were challenging the Los Angeles Rams for first place in the Western Division of the National Football Conference...