Word: twinings
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...Penan attire, a loincloth that covers his genitalia but leaves his muscular buttocks bare. His feet are disproportionately large and splayed, never having been confined by shoes. He wears necklaces fashioned from rattan and brightly colored beads, the bezel of a gilded wristwatch glinting incongruously beneath a mass of twine bracelets. (The watch has stopped at 3:50.) When he was young, his earlobes were distended by heavy weights. They now hang in 8-cm loops of flesh that almost touch his shoulders. They are his pride, along with the blowpipe he uses to hunt squirrels and monkeys and birds...
...under a new name. On the agreed night, two speedboats raced west out of Babi. After an hour or two, they cut the engines and waited, bobbing in the swell of passing carriers. In the first boat, the boarders assembled their satang, lashing together lengths of bamboo; the remaining twine they used for sword belts and handcuffs. In the early hours, the Thai tanker appeared as a collection of bright lights on the horizon. The two teams waited for it to pass, slipping on their balaclavas before firing up the outboards and circling around behind. As they approached, crashing over...
With under four minutes to go, Harvard had a chance to pull within one, but Bala rung a wrist shot off the post from the left circle, just inches from hitting the twine...
...census India's homeless were counted. In the narrow, crowded backstreets of old Delhi the enumerators spread out in pairs to wake up those asleep and take down the details of their lives. The man who ran an open-air "hostel"?some two dozen charpoys (woven twine and wooden beds) parked illegally on the pavement behind the city's great mosque?threatened the census clerks with a "good thrashing" if they didn't leave. "We find this all the time," one clerk sighed. "People think we are government spies. They still suspect us even when we tell them...
Senior center Harry Schwefel left a drop pass for sophomore winger Brett Nowak at the blueline. Unattended, Nowak stickhandled the puck to the center of the right circle and fired a soft shot past rookie netminder Nathan Marsters to hit the twine...