Word: teak
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Dales meanwhile was displaying a putting stroke sharp enough to cut teak in the rainforests of inner Borneo. He hit every green in regulation on the front nine and strung together nine consecutive pars...
...roads lead to rum and last month they went down to Winter Haven, Florida, chasing the Red Sox Spring Training Tan. They didn't really arrive until the day they wandered out on this teak-wood deck with an ocean view and thatched umbrellas over the ashtray tables where you set the kind of Caribbean concoctions that come in gutted coconuts and topless pineapples; that was when, with the help of a little juice, Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville music came marimba-ing out of the loudspeakers. This is Florida, man! You may not be no pith helmet, mama honey...
They didn't do it easily, and they didn't do it with very much style, but the Harvard women's fencing team at least beat Wellesley on the teak floor of the Wellesley Badminton Gymnasium last night...
...role as international lender is a creation of circumstances and Witteveen, in about that order. The Fund is a giant institution: 131 member countries, substantially all of the non-Communist world; 20 executive directors representing geographic blocs; a Washington headquarters outfitted with teak-paneled walls and leather-tufted elevators. Yet for almost three decades, it was content to monitor the system of fixed exchange rates of member countries. Among other things, it put up short-term cash that nations could use to buy or sell their own currencies, keeping the values within the narrow band specified by IMF rules...
There is still, it is true, a wealth of gifts available for the unreconstructed bauble bestower. A woman might consider giving her man the ultimate desk: a T-shaped, 7-ft.-long slab of teak, rosewood or African kevazenga; it rests on a mirrored aluminum pedestal and delivery of $10,000 to Lehigh-Leopold Furniture Co. Or she may pin her love on his chest, in the form of a $3,000, one-of-a-kind Countess Mara necktie, described as a "blossoming 14-karat gold rose studded with genuine brilliantly faceted diamonds, mounted on imported silk-cut velvet...