Word: lint
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...served the subpoenas to learn about any libelous statements that Democrats may have made about Republicans during last year's presidential campaign. So broad was the information demanded by the subpoenas that Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee commented: "They've asked for everything except the lint in our pockets...
...match at 167 pounds with an injured shoulder he suffered against Hofstra's unbeaten Bill Stauffer. He had not been able to practice all week due to the injury. Last night he seemed to be bothered by it as he lost his second match of the year. Mickey Lint, wrestling two weight class above his normal bracket, nipped last year's NCAA quarter-finalist...
...always very late, very cold and very dark. It is four in the morning, your logical processes are spent, your mind is wandering around like a vacuum cleaner picking up tiny balls of lint. Everything is inescapable. Every few seconds your brain hinges on some different nugget from the past. You would like to forget each and every one of them, but the pictures are too sharp and too terrifying to ignore. You are at once too tired and too aware to edit or sentimentalize your memory's scrapbook...
...most familiar image of Charlie Chaplin remains that of the little tramp turning away from the camera, shaking off his disappointments like so much lint and jigging off toward some more benign horizon...
...yard for a miniskirt. But it is also a source of problems for the women who wear them. As any man knows, pants get caught in bicycle chains. They bag at the knees, wrinkle in the rain and flap in the wind. Their cuffs collect water, dirt and lint. Their zippers fail. Pants also excite dogs...