Word: taperings
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...childhood living with her mother and the buried memories of aunts and uncles who died in Hitler's death camps. Overheard scraps of dinner-table conversation are not enough to reconstruct the past, so Anna uses her imagination. She starts by picturing a single barb on a wire, "its taper, its point, its torque, its dull gleam...
...whose celebrated furniture attained its apogee of design between 1820 and 1850. "Hands to work," said a Shaker motto, "hearts to God." Work was prayer, and nothing "worldly," meaning ostentatious or decorative, was allowed, beyond a discreet molding to the top of a cabinet or an elegant taper to a turned...
...final preparations for Easterns isn't a time in our taper when we swim our fatest," sophomore Karl Sheer said...
...Physically, we need to rest and keep our taper going," Gately said. "Mentally, we are ready. We have been waiting and training all year for the Easterns...
...beginning to taper a little more now and we're going to be shaved for Easterns," Scalise said. "With that, and solid performances all-around, I think that we will be able to beat them [the Tigers]. I don't think that my swimmers are ready to settle for anything less...