Word: twos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Trinhs are understandably fearful of crime. The first day they moved to Brooklyn they witnessed a mugging in the subway. Says Thuy, 22: "We've been warned not to leave home unless it's necessary, not to go out after dark, and to always travel in twos and threes." Adds Thuc Phan, 20: "How can we tell robbers we are too poor...
...install sprinkler systems and smoke alarms, but to no avail. "Retrofitting of the older hotels has always been an economic tug of war," says Clark County Manager Bruce Spaulding. Perhaps now they will. Says Gordon Vickery, director of the U.S. Fire Administration: "We usually lose people in ones and twos, and the public doesn't pay much attention. It takes a disaster like this...
...house and a moor, to hire Land Rovers, retrievers, gamekeepers, beaters and expert loaders who keep the guns charged, can cost about $25,000 a week. Even a week's stay at a modest inn costs more than $4,000. Then there is the required costume: "plus twos" (knickerbockers), heavy woolen socks, cleated gum boots, a Husky weatherproofed coat and a snug tweed cap. The sportsman also needs evening clothes and funds for the native libation. And the gun must have his guns, preferably a pair of 12-gauge double-barreled sidelock ejectors from London's Purdey James...
Yours was not an ill for mending, 'Twos best to take it to the grave...
...studio in Shikoku, Japan (he has another in New York City). Many of them were lumps of gray Aji granite on which his assistants had been practicing their pointing technique; others were basalt pebbles, dusty brown outside, dense black within. Some of the granite stones he grouped in twos and threes, nesting them into one another so that they seem to have flowed together. With the basalt, he split some stones by a single cut; in others, he opened up the merest chip of polished black "flesh" against the stone's rough, mat "skin," or bored into the surface...