Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MBTA employee said the fire, which sent smoke billowing out of ventilation grates along Mass. Ave., was caused by an electrical problem with a "brake shoe...
Something about telephones is obscurely comic, related to some manic vaudeville. In your fist you clutch to the ear an object that looks ignominiously like the shining plastic cousin of a shoe. Designers have produced more streamlined models, but an essential ungainliness is inescapable. It results partly from the pressing of technology against anatomy. The technosmooth circuitry is pushed bizarrely against the old Darwinian skull. The talker's being comes unfocused from the visual immediate room and refocuses -- through the ear! -- elsewhere. The Here communes with There through sudden activations of breath, vocal cords, jawbone, tongue, lips, eyes, emotions. Through...
...station, our handcuffs were removed. We never got our watches and belts back; we were too scared to ask. We ran to the beach, swimming far out, trying to shed our skins and memories. As we dried off afterwards, Zac fished a sodden piece of paper from his shoe. On it was a Kingston phone number...
Clarkson (11-3-1, 5-3-1) is ranked sixth in the nation, and dumped both Hockey East leader Northeastern and Western Michigan in a holiday tournament in Syracuse. St. Lawrence (5-8-2, 5-3-1) is coming off losses to Bowling Green and Minnesota in the Dexter Shoe Classic held in Orono, Me., last week. The Saints struggled in the early ECAC season, but have won four of their last five league contests...
...address indicated that the parcel had been mailed by Vance's old friend Senior Judge Lewis R. Morgan, who knew of Vance's passion for animals. "I guess Judge Morgan sent me some more of those horse magazines," Vance told his wife Helen. But as Vance eagerly opened the shoe box-size parcel, it exploded. Vance was killed instantly; his wife was seriously injured...