Word: straps
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VCRS come in nonportable tabletop models or portables. With the portables, the recorder can be detached from the tuner and carried on a shoulder strap. Together, the recorder and a small video camera enable the user to take "movies" at the Little League ball park, the beach or anywhere...
...town where life imitates screenplays, business resembles B war movies. Every morning baby moguls strap themselves into their BMWs and zoom off to wage battle and make deals at the studios...
...cyclists confronted the highly favored West Germans in the semis. The Germans, however, started too fast and lost a fatigued rider; the U.S. lapped the hapless survivors to win. The final, against a blistering Australian squad, saw the tables turned. The U.S.'s Dave Grylls' pedal strap came loose and he dropped out. The remaining Americans, pumping pure adrenaline, could not overcome the Aussies, and settled for silver. The sprint final, though, was all American...
...just a woman in funny clothes and a jock strap. They don't think the same, except about things like higher math. But neither are they an alien or inferior form of life. From the point of view of the novelist, this discovery has wide-ranging implications....But first, a small digression, partly to demonstrate that when people ask you whether you hate men, the proper reply is "Which ones?"--because, of course, the other big revelation of the evening is that not all men are the same. Some of them have beards. Apart from that, I have never been...
...took a lot to restrain him [Surette]," said Dietz, who added" it took about 15 policemen to tie him up and strap him to a board" after the suspect repeatedly "smashed his head against the door of the police...