Word: stowing
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Labor Day, celebrated in the U.S. on the first Monday of September, marked the traditional end of summer; the well-heeled vacationers would stow their summer duds and dust off their heavier, darker-colored fall clothing. "There used to be a much clearer sense of re-entry," says Steele. "You're back in the city, back at school, back doing whatever you're doing in the fall - and so you have a new wardrobe...
...Kashkari grew up in Stow, Ohio, an Akron suburb. As a high school student, he was a fan of heavy metal bands like AC/DC, whose lyrics dot his high school yearbook. He is 35 years...
...Many Tiwi still keep pictures she took in the small boxes or bags where they stow their precious things. When she returned four years ago, "They all wanted to show me their photo in the book." Many posed again for Portrait of a People, her new, self-published book (heidesmith.com). Some had died, and too many of those were young. Alcohol, cannabis and gambling "are breaking things up," Smith writes. The suicide rate on the Tiwi islands is 10 times the Australian average...
...sorts of hints that it is ready to talk to both the U.S. and Israel. For McCain, the lesson is the opposite: Why on earth does he want to keep making the same mistake Bush did and play the caricature Great Satan? A more prudent course would be to stow the tough-guy rhetoric, appear more reasonable, while aggressively - militarily - going after the violent jihadis in Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere...
...aides believe that the Wright controversy was more about anti-Americanism than it was about race. Michelle Obama's unfortunate comment that the success of the campaign had made her proud of America "for the first time" in her adult life and the Senator's own decision to stow his American-flag lapel pin - plus his Islamic-sounding name - have fed a scurrilous undercurrent of doubt about whether he is "American" enough...