Word: grinders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sports radio talk-show host b) acupuncturist c) organ grinder d) mime...
Kids clearly rule when it comes to playing dress-up and Jean explains that "adults are more into period clothes, playboy bunnies, regular stuff, monkeys--y'know, with the organ grinder." Either costumes for adults are overly involved--incorporating rented masks, wigs and clothing--or terribly boring (e.g. "I'm going as myself."). Kid Supermen and Jasmines concur: "time to give it up, grownups...
...played [Aaron Marchetti] twice last year andtraveled with him this summer," said Blake. "He isa grinder with a lot of talent, and I expected atough match. After the first I just tried to hangin there and get into the match. I put thepressure on and tried to make him make greatshots. I knew that if it was close at the end Iwould have a chance; I pride myself on coming upbig on the big points...
Fishing boats, navy ships, even a passenger liner combed the waters off the Canadian coast. Visibility was poor, and in hindsight it was for the best. "We picked up women's purses all blown to pieces as if you put them in a meat grinder," said Eugene Young, who usually fishes the waters for pollock, hake and cod in September. "You had to go awfully slow, because if someone was in the water, you didn't want to run them over." His image of an abattoir was apt. "There was not one bit of hope. Someone's belly here. Intestines...
...enjoy their fresh mango and banana fruit smoothies. However, the more adventurous should try a wheat grass drink. This bright green liquid comes in a shot glass. The bartender cuts grass from a white plastic tray of growing stalks and puts it in a special metal grinder to get the juice. But this isn't just any grass, this is wheat grass, and it can perform miracles. It is a (take a deep breath) body building, energizing, appetite suppressing, antibiotic, deodorizing concoction that also helps anemia. But, the other bartender warned, it does make you feel a little nauseous...