Word: towel
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tempting to throw in the towel. After a rash of earnings disappointments last week, the Dow and Nasdaq tumbled to new year lows. Tensions over Iran's nuclear ambitions and rising oil prices are compounding fears that the stock market is on shaky footing. Yet there is much to suggest that the market, which was mixed but stable on Monday, will float higher in coming weeks and months. So hang in there...
...Brokeback Mountain” needs no introduction. It’s easily the most anticipated film of all time for every homosexual male in the U.S.A., not to mention for a huge number of closeted he-men, whose uber-masculine towel-smacking is a thin disguise for some serious locker-room fantasies. Likely, the Republicans will go crazy, homophobic hicks across America will charge up the repression engine, church groups will picket the screenings, and President Bush will think fondly of his favorite stable boys. “Something’s rotten in the State of Christian Morality?...
Then I saw the hostess. She was hunched over on the linoleum with a paper towel in both hands, scrubbing with determination at a spot on the floor. I walked over to her, my palms a bit damp with sweat. A lot was riding on this encounter...
...squatted down and looked at her closely. There was nothing wrong with the spot, but something wasn’t right with her. I removed the paper towel from her yielding fingers and put it aside...
...Saturday Night and Sunday Morning," provides a snapshot of a neighborly Midwest Saturday night gathering during the mid-'60s. The men, all in one room, swap curse-filled insults and pornographic playing cards, while the women trade techniques for keeping the men in check ("I just throw a wet towel over it..."). Tyler likes to end her stories with a punch line, so the final panel depicts the guys the following morning as members of the "St. Rede Holy Name Society," handing out church bulletins...