Word: swapping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Saturday morning, and Jim Smith stands at his stall in the Old Paris Flea Market, a recycled warehouse near Oklahoma City's railroad yards. Before him are tables laden with things to sell or swap: beer mugs, some tiny and some as big as umbrella stands, plus old bottles, crystal goblets and ceramic figurines...
...also knows how to leaven suspense with satire. The book's grim five-day siege is softened throughout by memorable set-pieces. At one vodka-high point, captive Russian tourists and a bunch of Yale alumni swap song for song, while American wives instruct their captors in the Hustle. In another, bone-weary Alyosha beds a beautiful Intourist guide in Czarina Elizabeth I's Petersburg sled. Outside, in tune to the jouncing springs, a group of toasting Russians rhythmically applauds the lovers' vigor. For such flamboyant scenes and scenery, the saline Salt Mine deserves an ovation...
...Sohio is having to ship some 350,000 bbls. a day of it via tanker through the Panama Canal, a process that adds up to $1 per bbl. to the cost. What is more, oil companies are barred from exporting Alaskan oil, even if the purpose is to swap it for foreign oil that can be brought more easily to East Coast ports...
...blue APCO work trailer has been parked on Route 698 to serve as an advance base for surveying teams. But most people have lived in the Gap all their lives, and life is as it has been for 100 years. The men meet at the Coon Hunters Club to swap stories. The women spend a good deal of time making quilts. They also keep the Methodist church as near as in the days when they had their own preacher. APCO is offering "a fair market value" for the land, which means up to $3,000 an acre for cleared fields...
...fever, Congress last year passed a law requiring the Treasury to begin selling its own one-ounce and half-ounce gold pieces next spring. The coins, with profiles of Louis Armstrong and Mark Twain, will not be legal tender in the U.S., and will presumably be no easier to swap for real money than the Krugerrand...