Word: slice
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...This is a slice of a letter that I received, explaining why Marlene can't find out her new telephone number: "Marlene has not had her phone number changed. The phone company has changed it for some reason and won't tell her what it's changed to, since they claim that it's an unlisted number. When I left she was still trying to get it all straightened...
...Singer pushed his coffee closer to him. "No no, I like to talk and cat," he protested. "The food tastes better when you talk." Mrs. Singer tried to interest me in some toast with strawberry jam. I wasn't hungry, so she spread the jam thickly on a half-slice of toast and gave it to her husband...
...extent that living can be expressed in numbers, black consumers occupy a sizable slice of American life. Last year the nation's 22,727,000 blacks spent more than $35 billion on goods and services-only slightly less than the 21,007,000 citizens (the total population) of Canada...
...about time this happened, and this particular process of liberalizing our media couldn't have started with a better work. The Boys in the Band neither apologizes for the homosexual nor preaches about his plight in a heterosexual world. Rather, it sucks us into a grimly realistic slice of the characters lives to let us draw our own conclusions...
...price of Japan's reach for that sizable slice of world trade has been years of national self-denial. "We have sold everything, including the kitchen sink," laments Economist Kiichi Miyazawa, head of the influential Ministry of International Trade and Industry