Word: tails
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...crisis in gondola making is only part of a larger problem. "There are other kinds of boats that people don't even know how to make anymore," he says, referring to craft like the peata and the batea con la coda di gambero (boat with the shrimp's tail), both once used for transporting goods. "Those who knew how to make them closed down, and no one has replaced them...
...Finally, up on the block in Brunei: Hundreds of "European" sofas made of buttery soft leather, one of which is shaped like the tail end of a Cadillac...
Truth be told, I’m seeing the tail end of it now—the worst of it has passed. Even so, people are still seething to themselves, silently hating their jobs and the companies that hacked away their own people, actively seeking headhunters or packing their bags and hopping on a flight out of here. But it was when the atmosphere of turmoil was much worse back in the spring that a coworker had dug out the old newspaper advertisement and had pasted it on the wall. For, as someone later explained...
...Brenda Taylor ’01. Taylor, who placed third at U.S. Nationals in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles in June, ranks 16th on the world performance with a personal best of 55.46 seconds. The hurdles preliminaries begin on Sunday, while the high jump will be held at the tail end of the 10-day meet with preliminaries next Friday and the finals two days later...
...Flosenzier turned toward the screaming children and saw blood coloring the ocean. He and another man sprinted into the surf and found the 7.4-ft., 200-lb. shark about to roll away, its jaw on Jessie's arm. Vance, who trains for triathlons, grabbed the shark by its sandpapery tail and tried to pull, but it would not budge. He yanked again, and Jessie fell away, his arm ripping, as the shark clamped down. Aware that two girls were still farther out in the water, Vance walked backward, pulling the shark along the sandy bottom of the shallow sea toward...