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.../ From Stephen “Swifty” Warden, Toronto, ON, Canada...
...Every day at the same time, a warden opens these gates that separate two communities from each other. It's called a peace wall....
...Thereby channelling this atavism: my inner-air-raid-warden – although with the transposition that they instructed you to put your lights out; I want to order mouths to be shut up....
...“In the last crisis everybody took their ball home and retrenched to their domestic market,” she says. “There is a real risk the American banks will do exactly the same in the next crisis.”...
...The incessant group dances for partygoers, air-raid wardens and sundry low-lifes are repetitive and uninspired....
...As bat first hits ball, I venture a conversation about Europe with a broad-shouldered man in his forties....
...John Vickers, warden, All Souls College, Oxford There could well be a reversal of some easing if the MPC were to focus more on its inflation target. It’s not clear they will though....
...Traditionally the pangolins rolled up in a ball but poachers just pick up the balls and sell the animals to traditional healers or restaurants....
...In October, for example, the Fed’s inspector-general singled out the New York Fed as having dropped the ball before JPMorgan’s “London Whale” trading fiasco....
...Nowadays, there is only a lawn for the college’s triennial ball....
...In Golders Green, our oak panelled and stained-glassed synagogue had an air of late Victorian ecclesiastical grandeur about it: “wardens” in ceremonious top hats, installed in a special boxed-in pew at the...
...So often in life it is the oddest things that bring us pleasure: not the holidays and the celebrations and galas, but the time you were visiting a friend in prison and the large female warden frisked you...
...“Don’t worry about traffic wardens,” says the shopkeeper, who notices my nervous glances towards the window. “You’re on Dorset time now.”...
...It would be a fair punt that most slackliners will also own hacky-sacks (soft bean-filled balls used for juggling)....
...Before meeting him for the first time, shortly after the war, I attended a rather feudal ball at Oxford....
...He’s one of my playing partners today but he’s also my foghorn, traffic warden, cartographer and raconteur....
...Nobody could ever accuse the Bank of Japan, staid warden of monetary policy for the world’s second-largest economy, of being relaxed about risk....
...You have to go to Versailles, Richardson says, where the statues “direct you like traffic wardens through the garden”, to sense how crowded these exclusive spaces would have been....
...Charleston spawned literature, babies and colour schemes that pre-dated Farrow & Ball....
...The warden threw a party in the county jail. The prison band was there and they began to wail. The band was jumpin and the joint began to swing. You should’ve heard those knocked out jailbirds sing....
...It’s shocking, ball-grabbing stuff and not designed for the weak-hearted....
...When a big shift on pensions policy had to be announced the job was given to Ed Balls who, for all his eminence and talent, is not yet even an MP....
...When a major shift on pensions policy had to be announced the job was given to Ed Balls who, for all his eminence and talent, is not yet even an MP....
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