Word: shoes
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...sure what I would have become if I didn't get a job at Ford. I took the best I could get at the time and I grew into other things, one that I feel helped a lot of people. It was better than becoming a shoe salesman," he says with a chuckle...
...their compliant parents turned out in sufficient force for the store to meet its sales goal, a slight increase over last year’s figures, according to store merchandiser Michael Graney. Smaller boutiques opted for a creative approach to entice customers. Concepts, a sneaker boutique, began selling a shoe exclusive to its store, drawing a large crowd when doors opened Friday morning, said Tarek Hassan, the owner of Concepts and nearby Tannery boutiques. “You have to go outside the box to make sales in an economy like this,” said Hassan, who said...
...Christmas parade) and draw attention to their department store. The employees marched six miles, from Harlem to Herald's Square, dressed as clowns, knights and cowboys. Marching bands and animals from the Central Park Zoo accompanied the parade's first floats: The Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe, Miss Muffet and Red Riding Hood. The event attracted a quarter of a million people and was deemed a roaring success. Macy's decided to make it an annual event...
...cruised, catwalked, or streetwalked, I also hope I've never flounced ... Stormed, I think, is the preferred manly word here. Sometimes, less forcefully, I may have sloped off or stolen away. I have sidled, tiptoed, pussyfooted, perhaps even slunk. I have hit the street, pounded the pavement, worn out shoe leather, taken Shanks's pony, hotfooted it, legged it, strode out, loped, paced. So far I have never waddled ... I may well have promenaded, pedestrianized, peregrinated, ambulated, perambulated, circumambulated, hoofed, and locomoted ... I'm sure I've strutted, but I'm pretty damn sure that I've never swaggered...
...Taiwan in 1968. His father died when he was a toddler and his mother, an English professor, moved with her two sons to the U.S. in 1978. According to published reports, the only English word that Yang and his younger brother knew when they arrived in America was "shoe." The family eventually settled in San Jose, Calif...