Word: swirl
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...time I got turned on by the “jungle fever” aspect of the chocolate-vanilla swirl...
...loaded onto the cylinders. Scrambling to scoop the fresh-newsprint-smelling pages as they swarmed off new, and then gathering them into bunches that you grasped loosely and tapped folded-edge down, so that they slid together cleanly in thick blocks and the newsprint rubbed its way into every swirl and crevice in the pads of your fingers and stayed there until you scoured it out with rough soap. And then walking home filthy as the sun came up, knowing you’d helped put together something good, something finite and ephemeral and tangible, something hundreds of people you?...
...Projections and predictions always swirl as thick as flakes in Alaska, but it?s important to remember that this thing is still happening in real time, and what American Joes and Janes do with their wallet during the next three days to six weeks, as the original Mr. Frost once said, could make all the difference...
...everywhere. It’s ingrained in the sidewalks and the walls of the nearby businesses, many of which have reopened only within the past week. But it’s also in the air, and thick. Microscopic bits of concrete and metal and paper and presumably people swirl with every breath. It’s acrid for blocks in every direction...
...Qissa Khawani is also known as the Street of the Storytellers. In the past, travellers stopped to rest in its tea-shops and tell fantastic tales of their journeys. Today the rumors that swirl through Qissa Khawani are no less fanciful. One of the more common is the allegation that 4,000 Jewish people who supposedly worked in the World Trade Center stayed at home the day of the attacks. "It was all arranged by Israel," says Abdul Baky, a 26 year-old shopkeeper. "The Jews stayed away, and kept their paper records outside their offices." He is holding...