Word: plaid
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...sales from the week following Dec. 25 topped sales from Thanksgiving weekend, the season's traditional apex. And this time around, the discounting has already been set in motion by a season of relative slump. So bargains should be plentiful - along with bargain-hunters, for whom that ill-fitting plaid sweater is the perfect excuse to remedy Christmas gift oversights. Profit margins, however, will be slim...
...Nutmeg State, you needed an ethnic angle. This meant that he had to pose as a Jew. After a day of running around in his Jewish pose, complete with Yiddishisms and a rabbinical demeanor, he'd come home each night to his manse, slip on a pair of plaid pants and a kelly blazer and announce: "Jeezus, these people. Gawd, I have to wash my hands.... I mean, they're sooooo pushy. Lovey, could you pour me a Pimm's Cup?" Lieberman's wife, Hadassah, I "revealed" was actually named... Muffy. As a Jew, I figured I had the ethnic...
...flat surface, such as the Grand Canyon. You get the best of both worlds here: levelness, or platitude, and de-elevation. And the magnificence of the erosionary process. And when you go visit, you don't run into flinty-eyed people busily despising you for your yellow plaid walking shorts and a T shirt that says SAVE THE WHALES. TRADE THEM FOR VALUABLE PRIZES. The canyon belongs to the world. (I believe there is a separate entrance for Sierra Club members, the Ansel Adams Trail, where they don't need to encounter us and the landscape is black and white...
According to the authorities, the suspects are two black youths, 17 to 20 years old. The victims described the robber with the gun as a 5'8, dark-skinned male, with a muscular build, a round face and large teeth. He wore a dark-colored bandana, a dark plaid shirt, a black leather jacket and blue jeans...
Even Darling, usually conservative in politics and dress, wore a flashy plaid vest that drew raves from the crowd...