Word: tip
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...hazy bits in his story is how, before he emigrated, he knew of a tiny, unincorporated farm hamlet called Ellsworth (after Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth, the first Union officer killed in the Civil War). There were a few Dutch families in this rolling, forested country at the northern tip of Michigan's lower peninsula, but no Danes who might have written to say there were lumberjack jobs in the woods for a sturdy young man who didn't speak much English...
Floating above Seattle with my balky DataGlove, I'm inclined to agree. There is an irritating delay between the moment I tip my head to the left and the time the images move to the right. When I reach to grab an object, there is no physical sensation of hitting a solid surface. When I do make contact, my hand is as likely to pass through the object as to connect with...
...homeroom teacher. The letter was really a rah-rah sort of message filled with inspiring, profound phrases on the importance of reading. In it were also a few handy suggestions on how to best squeeze in the time for reading during those fun-packed days of summer. One such tip urged us to schedule a half hour to read before going to bed each night (after brushing our teeth, of course...
...millimeter is about one twenty-fifth of an inch, or about the size of the very tip of a ballpoint...
...most obvious located at the point where warmth intersects rhetoric. Reagan's rhetoric was crafted by flacks, and the warmth may not have warmed anyone within actual touching distance, apart from Nancy, but from a podium or in front of a lens, the combination was overpowering. Reagan, said Tip O'Neill in a moment of frustration, could win an election with the votes of a group of bankrupt farmers. O'Neill, no mean blarneyer himself, was paying homage to a master...