Word: slipper
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...phased out its venerable Beetle profile of the 1950s and 1960s for the engineering improvements and angular lines of the bestselling Rabbit in the 1970s, the company is now at work on the aerodynamically sleek silhouette of a new subcompact four-seater design that looks more like a Gucci slipper than...
...hold it together. She pours out affection and admiration to her sister, Vanessa Bell, whom she wonderfully characterizes as a mixture of pagan goddess and Moll Flanders. She is ardent and extravagant to Vita Sackville-West, with whom she has a love affair and later slips into a "warm slipper" relationship. She is fondly exasperated and patient with Ethel Smyth, considerate to friends (like the dying Janet Case) who are in need, practical and encouraging to younger writers like Stephen Spender and Elizabeth Bowen...
...trundles past, probably late and probably packed, but to make good use of your two bits you take it to the end of the line. Few Harvard students ever will, since the Dudley stops smacks in the middle of Roxbury, but if they did they would find the Silver Slipper Restaurant, "Home of Limbo Patties, Curry Goat and Empanadas," and the nest egg of Leonard and Daphne Matthews. Their tiny eatery is hard to find--with the tracks from the Orange Line blocking much of the light over the sign, and the heavy window grating taking care of the rest...
...below for $1.50 an hour and me from Jamaica? I was ready to go home, man!"). He intended to save enough to start his own business in Jamaica, but he's invested in his restaurant and doesn't now know whether he'll go back home. The Silver Slipper is as much a second start for Leonard Matthews as Grandma's is for Sid Gerstenblatt; but Leonard has weaned his child for eight years instead of eight weeks, and then, Leonard never had much choice about work...
...common consent, the most spectacular hole at Yale is the ninth, a 220-yd. par-three that calls for a tee shot from an elevated promontory that must carry over the water below to a split-level, slipper-shaped green. The narrow green is encircled by trees...