Word: woodworking
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Although McCarthy says his receipts remain healthy--and should increase for the duration of the March college basketball tournament--student regulars at the Grille counter that attendance at the bar has dropped due to more scrupulous efforts by bouncers and fears that ABCC investigators may be lurking in the woodwork...
...worried most about the impact of the latest developments on his wife's career. This has not been the afterlife he imagined. A few weeks ago, before anyone knew anything about any pardons, friends had told him to stay out of sight for six months, just disappear into the woodwork. It's too late for that...
...whom had dispersed overseas?managed to keep the house's deed in their name. In 1979, Bei and her husband quietly moved back into the mansion. Over the years, they have slowly restored the house, peeling off the concrete and paint that Red Guards had poured over the woodwork and colorfully tiled floors...
...gangsters got to know one another, sometimes in prison. The gangsters acted as bodyguards and did other favors for pols, says Kim Kyu Hun, head of the Seoul district prosecutor's violent crimes division. When President Kim's party came to power, the fists crawled out of the woodwork. "Now," the prosecutor says, "they want the favors returned...
...knock this. Specialist invention has given millions of us the highest standard of living in history. And not just at the gizmo level. Now and again, deep in the epistemological woodwork, mind-numbingly arcane fields mix and mingle to produce cosmic upheaval with startling new realms of crossbred knowledge: astrophysics, biogeography, psychopharmacology, neurochemistry, paleobotany. This is to be expected. There are more scientists and technologists alive today than in the whole of previous history, and they have as much right to a happy and productive life as the rest...