Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spent the rest of the afternoon cleaning off my shoe...
...Yard pedestrians--be reassigned to the dog owners. I propose that those who operate these compact waste factories incur the full costs of their activity by contributing to a University "Superfund." With this money, Harvard could hire clean-up crews, as well as reimburse students for dry cleaning bills, shoe shines, and Lysol...
...Tucker said, "I have been rich, and I have been poor. Rich is better." Of course it is, especially when spring arrives and the IRS closes in. But when most people imagine what life would be like after winning the lottery, they do not come up with 5,400 shoes. The methodical analyst switches on his calculator. If Imelda Marcos changed her shoes three times a day, and never wore the same pair twice, it would take her more than two years and five months to work through her shoe supply--as it existed on the day she fled Manila...
...improbable dreams. In more than 100 of Alger's books for young readers, upstanding, hardwork- ing poor boys reached sudden and unexpected success by saving rich benefactors from terrible fates. But it turns out that Alger had a dream of his own -- to appeal to grownups. This July the Shoe String Press will publish for the first time Alger's Mabel Parker; or, The Hidden Treasure, a story of true love triumphing over mere monetary pursuits. Now in the archives at Syracuse University, the manuscript originally had a fate most unbecoming to a Horatio Alger story. Just before...
...golden oldie, Harlem Shuffle. "We have a lot of influence," explains Ron Wood, "and we'd like to turn the kids of today on to what we consider our roots." As for working as a group again, Mick Jagger says, "It was like going back to an old shoe." Stones in an old shoe are not entirely comfortable, though. The five -- Jagger, 42, Wood, 38, Keith Richards, 42, Charlie Watts, 44, and Bill Wyman, 44 -- have had their differences, notably over Jagger's increasingly active career as a solo performer. The tensions showed in taped interviews to promote the album...