Word: snippeted
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...have no plans to marry, they are looking for a house in Provence, where they can raise their child away from the polluted air of Paris, in rustic if very comfortable domesticity. Such is her idea of high romance that one of her main mementos of Christian is a snippet of his toenail-suitably encased in gold and worn as an earring...
...find disagreeable. This tail-wagging-the-dog situation curbs most attempts at quality or daring. Nor does Public Broadcasting offer a sanguine alternative. The networks tolerate it as Their Majesty's Loyal Opposition-as long as it retains its obsequious manner. Should it ever capture more than a snippet of the vast audience, broadcast lobbyists in Washington would reduce its generous funding to a trickle. Given this bland, canned state of TV, does the audience have any hope at all for fast, fast, fast relief? After 365 pages of documented despair, Brown suddenly goes upbeat, trusting the general viewer...
...vague that they raise no suspicion of lead poisoning. For borderline cases, or for children under suspicion because they live in the same building as a known victim, there are several blood and urine tests, and an ingenious method of detecting lead (by spectrophotometry) in a snippet of their hair...
...drapery into 45,000 patches and include one in each copy of a souvenir-record album called Opening Nights at the Metropolitan. Of course, the curtain did shrink some in the cleaning, but there was enough to go around as Soprano Leontyne Price scissored off the first snippet for publicity's sake. Then she hurried back to rehearsals at the new Met, where she will star opening night as Cleopatra in an opera written for her by Composer Samuel Barber...
Calder began rebuilding toys for himself when he was eight. He would embellish them with a snippet of wire here and there, sometimes to give them more motion. From then on, a pair of pliers became his tool to remake the world...