Word: sunbathed
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...someone said, it?s as if the New York skyline were suddenly missing its two front teeth. Standing on our roof, we can see its absence and smell its remains. Because the towers have vanished, the light is different: late in the afternoon, the Woolworth Building gets a golden sunbath. We also have a view (that view) of Ground Zero. In the past week a huge American flag has been draped from an older building nearby...
...undoubtedly well edited, about unspeakable betrayal and cold-blooded revenge. As its title suggests, there is a premium on getting, spending and preserving wealth and status. Characters talk in nine and even ten figures. A New York City mistress is taken to Paris for lunch and Cuernavaca for a sunbath. Markets are rigged by big shots who are never out of contact with their intercontinental flunkies; one even has a telephone in his refrigerator in case he gets a call while "taking" a snack...
...York Hammarskjold, brick-red from a sunbath during his stop at Hawaii, conferred immediately with Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. representative to the U.N., who later announced: "I am confident that progress has been made and that our flyers will be free." Hammarskjold himself, at a press conference the next day, rated his own hopes at "a temperature somewhat lower than that reflected in the word 'optimism...
...dismal stretch the Giants lost 11 in a row. It was a test of fire for loyal followers, and many a diehard, headed for Coogan's Bluff, was heard to mutter lamely that he was going out to the ballpark, only because he needed a sunbath. The lard-encased Manhattan saloonkeeper, Toots Shor, once spoke the agony of all Giant fans in one gloomy flirtation with apostasy. "I been wonderin' lately," he told a friend. "I'm raising my kids to be Giant fans. I don't know whether I'm doing the right thing...
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