Word: wearings
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...Mizuki informed me that American students aren’t, well, the best of dressers. They began to list the drab colors Americans seem to favor, and just as I was about to nod my head in agreement, I glanced down at my own clothes and realized I was wearing the exact “grays, blacks, and browns” they had mentioned. As I joined their group picture on the steps of Widener, I found myself holding my two fingers up and feeling very out of place among the mixing and matching of bright colors around...
...home in Berlin, is anything but ecstatic about his family’s move to a lonely country estate. However, he soon takes a keen interest in the “farm” that he sees from his bedroom window. “Why do the farmers wear pajamas?” Bruno asks his mother, Elsa (Vera Farmiga). The “farm” is actually the concentration camp his father supervises. After finding out about the nearby camp, Elsa forbids Bruno to go exploring behind the house, and Bruno, of course, disobeys her instructions. During...
...like a pair of shoes," says Wang Zhangen as he stands next to a pile of glass destined for a factory in Handan, 260 miles away. "If you're feeling wealthy, you can buy a new pair of shoes. If you're not, you wear the same ones. Nobody is buying cars or houses, so no one needs glass...
...explains bin Sulayem. "If he is the best Jewish man but has no vision, we wouldn't do business with him. But if he is from Timbuktu with a good idea, we will. What people believe is up to them. And when Sol came to Dubai, he didn't wear a flag that said, 'By the way, I'm Jewish.' " Addressing Western fears about the Arab and Islamic worlds back in his office at the Atlantis, Kerzner adds, "I don't think it's good to have stereotyped notions of people." He says he's not on a mission...
TIME: Do you think there are more ideologues than pragmatists in the House Republican Conference? Boehner: If you're looking at my voting record, I have one of the most conservative voting records in the House. But I don't wear it on my sleeve. [Laughs.] I don't shove it in people's face. I don't expect everybody to vote the way I do ... There's a lot of labels that get thrown around, and one of the reasons I don't belong to any of these organizations in our Congress is [that] because when you join...