Word: toweled
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Given that most men don't buy new clothes until the ones they have are irredeemably stained or torn, how do retailers get them to acquire more khakis and buttoned-down shirts when they already have several in their closet? In effect, by throwing in the towel. A wave of new products suggests that manufacturers are finally conceding that they will never get most men interested in high fashion. So, helped by new technology, they are appealing to men's baser fashion instincts and habits...
...can’t drape a towel over a microwave in the middle of a room without us noticing,” Gingo said. “We look at anything out in the open, in closets and under beds and desks. But we don’t open dresser drawers or trunks or personal objects like that...
...It’s like breathing with one lung through a wet towel,” he says...
...church, the migrants didn't fight but filed obediently into buses waiting to ferry them to local police stations. Before the eviction, Kurshid - an 18-year-old Iraqi Kurd who paid smugglers $6,000 for the month-long journey via Istanbul to Sangatte - stood outside the church with a towel wrapped around his head against the cold. "We want to go to Sangatte because from there you can go to England, Australia and Canada," he explained. "We don't want to apply for asylum here because the French won't give us a passport or political rights." But just hours...
...subjects—9-, 17-, and 24-month-old infants—witnessed a multi-step task, such as placing a towel in a trash can, and were asked to imitate it after hearing a verbal...