Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...establishment favored by the artistic community. There, surrounded by walls of peeling paint and cooled by electric fans, he would listen to blues and soul in the evening, drinking gin and tonics or whiskey, perhaps staring at the apple slices in the giant jar of vodka or the bottled snake on the liquor shelf. When a wine bar opened next door, Leeson spent more and more time there. "It's like an old boys' club, where the guys smoke cigars in leather arm chairs," said Johnny Walker, the bartender at 5 Emerald Hill. Leeson began to learn to buy wine...
...collecting eggs to swallow / whole, hoarding their shapes in my long body / I am the snake that lies quiet, still...
...best whodunits, murderous motives abound. No one is very surprised when Gerard Etienne, arrogant young managing director of London's Peverell Press, is found dead with a snake around his neck. Most of the suspects in the case benefit from his death in one way or another: the question is, who is capable of committing murder...
Today most heart disease is treated as though it were primarily a mechanical malfunction. Clogged arteries are either reopened with the equivalent of a plumber's snake or bypassed by vessels borrowed from other parts of the body. But while such heroic measures can relieve pain and reduce debilitating fatigue, they generally forestall death for only a few years...
...fertilized by the water, strange stories seemed to spring up overnight. In Liberty a farmer was forced to conduct a submarine cattle drive through snake-infested floodwaters in order to get his herd onto higher ground. In Kingwood a man chased from his house by rising water returned by boat the next day in the hope of finding his missing dog; not far away, the dog -- very much alive -- was bobbing like an apple in 18 ft. of water...