Word: tic
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...corresponds to your parking space. I was late for dinner in San Francisco, and I didn't have exact change. It was late, and I doubted that anyone would bust me, but I still ended up jogging across the street to a convenience store and buying a box of Tic Tacs I didn't want just to break a $20. Then I spent the next five minutes folding eight $1 bills into stick origami and squeezing them into the sneering slot...
...Edelman, a study in demure imperiousness, was seated in the front row--but not the sentiment. He said he embraced welfare reform in Vermont and implied that he did it better than Clinton. But then, to hear Dean speak, he did just about everything better in Vermont--a rhetorical tic that is beginning to get on the nerves of his fellow candidates...
...Edelman, a study in demure imperiousness, was seated in the front row - but not the sentiment. He said he embraced welfare reform in Vermont and implied that he did it better than Clinton. But then, to hear Dean speak, he did just about everything better in Vermont - a rhetorical tic that is beginning to get on the nerves of his fellow candidates...
...cell phone to call my own (get it? call?) while I was researching for Let’s Go USA. It was fulfilling, in a way, to have a phone nestled snugly in the cell-phone pouch on my purse, a pouch that had previously been reserved for Tic Tacs. Of course it took me a week or two to figure out how the voicemail system operated, but after that I never received any messages anyway. It was nice to be able to keep in touch with my parents and my boyfriend—that is, when I could...
Eddie Zaratsian, who runs Tic-Tock, a Los Angeles floral store, can produce a genteel centerpiece, but perhaps due to his vast clientele in the film industry, he is inclined to create something dramatic rather than traditionally romantic: say, a small, distressed-wood chest filled with mossy greens, chocolate-colored roses and blood-red orchids that would cause the most brooding goth to swoon...