Word: towelled
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...YORK—Three, two, one. Just like that, I’m throwing off the towel around my waist and running into broad daylight, my hands thrown high up in the air as I whoop at the top of my lungs. At least that’s what’s going on in my mind. In reality, I’m stepping off Tillary Street and onto the Brooklyn Bridge ramp for a leisurely stroll to Manhattan. The jaunt assumes a level of intensity the people around me don’t share because not everyone believes?...
...that moment—lying face up on my striped towel, my wet feet enveloped in sand, my eyes closed as they faced the sun—the conversation I was having with my friend, about her wanting to be as dark as me by the end of the summer, had trailed off into nothingness. It was my fault—my sparse replies signaled that my thoughts were otherwise occupied...
...folk-rock ensemble that favored trippy tunes like A Horse with No Name by America. Unlike Rumsfeld or Powell, he's so soft-spoken, you have to lean in to hear him. When he spouts statistics about family-dissolution rates, you wonder how he found himself in the towel-snapping world...
...thoughts and acting on them. But it is not so easy to purge the actual predators without punishing those heroes of sublimation or losing their valuable contributions to society. Why? Because the line is hard to draw in practice. Is the football coach who spends a bit too long towel snapping in the locker room after the game a predator or a sublimator? Because fear of succumbing to temptation must surely plague even those who remain steadfast, and imposing ruination as the cost of succumbing will drive such people away--or condemn them to a lifetime of psychological torture. Because...
...your pizza? I don’t really eat pizza, but when I do, I remove the grease with a paper towel and then pick off the cheese...