Word: slat
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...CHAIRS The recline of civilization began in 1928 when two cousins, Ed Shoemaker and Ed Knabusch, invented a comfortable wood-slat porch chair, choosing the name La-Z-Boy. They then decided to upholster the chair so it would sell year-round. La-Z-Boy Inc. had sales of more than $1 billion in fiscal...
...Slat 6 songs are strikingly simple: typically, there's one guitar hook, one notable response from the bass line, and a short song text whose point is a one-line chorus: then it's on to the next pop song, where they repeat the process. The paradox, if you want to call it that, is that their total simplicity of means ends up with such an emotional wallop: one tune and one line from this record can take over your whole day, if you're lucky. what remember of "Time Expired," for example, consists of the chorus--"Time expired, violation/It...
...other words, Rhodes is drawn to balancing acts at the edge of despair, above what he calls "a hole in the world." His was blasted open in 1938 when his mother put a 12-gauge shotgun in her mouth and pushed the trigger with a slat...
...room misuse" fines are highway robbery. The fines are generally much higher than the price of buying a new square foot of paneling, installing a new wooden slat, or repainting a wall. But then again, that's not what the money is used for. It goes to replenish the coffers of the superintendent's office...
...reasonable to argue that a student who makes tack holes in a wooden slat or uses tape on a painted wall is contributing to an eventual need for repair, and thus should incur an appropriate charge. But this charge shouldn't be 20 dollars per tack. The sums my dormmates have to pay for their sins grossly exceed the amount of damage done...