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This is a Quickie P300, the Porsche of sip-and-puff wheelchairs. It has six areas of command. If Reeve wishes to go forward or backward or to the left or the right or fast or slow, he sips air from or blows air into a plastic straw at varying strengths. When he shifts his sitting angle between straight up and laid back, the chair makes the sound of an old European elevator or a convertible top closing...
...roommates was off to Ecuador to write for Let's Go, planning to sip cerveza in Quito. Another roommate was leaving for India to set up small businesses for the poor as part of a Christian mission. A third roommate was on his way to Italy for the orchestra's European tour and fine red wine...
While the Union used to serve as a reading room where first-years could recline in leather chairs and sip sherry, architects and planners intended Loker to be a less imposing space. In fact, it became one of the few places at Harvard reminiscent of other college campuses...
...evening he got Clinton's counteroffer, Brown and Ickes repaired to the bar in Little Rock's Capital Hotel. "Well, I didn't get State," Brown told Ickes, "and I'm not gonna do the U.N. The President wants me to be Secretary of Commerce." Brown took a sip of cognac and smiled. "What does Commerce do?" he asked. "I don't even know where the building is," replied Ickes. As he told the story, Ickes swung from laughter to tears, then settled into a wistful chuckle...
...like Pepsi better," said Enko N. Kiprilov '99, as he took a sip of his Pepsi...