Word: window
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...window-shopping for a new cosmetic surgeon...
Microsoft designed Vista with high-resolution graphics and lots of animations, conveying a dynamic, in-motion feel. Every window has a translucent border. Alongside the main screen runs the Sidebar, a panel of little helper applications called gadgets, among them a news reader, a calculator and a currency converter. A key visual highlight is the window flipper: with a click, your open windows form a single-file line and parade past for your review...
...support comes from the Sadr movement, which is connected to the militia that is doing a lot of the sectarian killing and infiltrating the police. He can only crack down on this so far before he crosses a line and loses his political backing. Dissolving a police could be window dressing. It looks good. But there's a lot more to clean...
...formed at Harvard continued to crumble. Gutless humanities concentrators always accuse the industry of being heartless. But this misconception was soon debunked when D.A. helped a six-year-old girl open up her first savings account. And she didn’t just reach up to the teller window with her big brown eyes and her pink piggy bank full of pennies; she reached out with a child’s innocence and a lifetime’s savings of love. Unfortunately, D.A. took this love the wrong way and is no longer allowed within 500 yards of an elementary...
...Dreamers.” We’re almost out of the woods (having narrowly missed a fierce spat over adjective-noun order), the opening strains of the second stanza in sight, before we’re sidelined by a single dastardly phrase: “French window.” The professor is convinced that there is no such thing—in Argentina—and that simply to put down the literal translation of the phrase would make about as much sense as “Brazilian window” or “Czechoslovakian window?...