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The sneaker reached out once more to tap against the mass and Ramey's vision darkened except for an unreasonable clarity of the man's leg.
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sneaker and out
Newer brands went in and out of fashion, and sneaker companies started shelling out major endorsements to players.
The other He-Man " Womun " Haters secretly spy on the couple during their picnic, and make several attempts to ruin it like putting kitty litter in their sandwiches and pouring their juice out of a dirty sneaker, until Alfalfa notices and quickly brings his date with Darla to an early end.
Because they are much larger than preceding waves, sneaker waves can catch unwary swimmers, washing them out to sea.
sneaker and more
For hard pitches, amateur participants may wear a sneaker shoe or a plastic-stud boot ( known as a " moulded sole "); in most sports and positions this is adequate, although on a well-grassed or sodden field, screw-in studs are recommended for more grip ; these may be metal, rubber or plastic.
sneaker and for
Athletic sneaker collection has also existed as a part of urban subculture in the United States for several decades.
A contributor to the growth of sneaker collecting is the continued worldwide popularity of the Air Jordan line of sneakers designed by Nike for Basketball star Michael Jordan.
In the first part of the 2000s Nike was the dominant sneaker brand for adults and Sketchers were popular for children.
In 1997 CAIR objected to the production of sneaker made by Nike with a design on the heel similar to the Arabic word for " Allah ".
The word " sneaker " is often attributed to Henry Nelson McKinney, an advertising agent for N. W. Ayer & Son, who, in 1917, coined the term because the rubber sole made the shoe stealthy.
Sneaker sales in the United States soared to six hundred million pairs a year in 1957, which led leather shoe makers to claim that " sneakers are bad for children's feet " to which sneaker producers replied " sneakers cure the syndrome of Inhibited Feet ".
In 2005 a documentary, Just for Kicks, about the sneaker phenomena and history was released.
sneaker and man's
Ramey looked down and saw the white sneaker at the bottom of the man's tanned leg cautiously nudge a bit of folded, blood-flecked substance lying by itself on the pavement.
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* Sneaker boot or sneaker pump: a shoe that looks like an athletic shoe, but is equipped with a heel, making it a kind of novelty dress shoe.
Also known as dansneakers, these are a combination of a sneaker and a dance shoe, with a reinforced rubber toe.
In honor of the area's former shoe making industry ( that used to be located where the current Ten-Thousand Villages Corporate Offices are currently ) a giant sneaker is lowered at midnight.
The style of these resembles the Chuck Taylor All-Stars brand name, considered to be the " generic " or " standard " basketball sneaker.
De La Soul collaborated with the athletic sneaker giant Nike to produce two versions of the Nike Dunk under their skateboarding division, Nike SB.
It was noticeable enough that the band was approached by the Converse sneaker company to promote their new line of Chuck Taylor sneakers.
In 1990, British sportswear firm Pentland Group, which had just sold its shares of sneaker company Reebok, acquired a significant stake in Warnaco offshoot Authentic Fitness, which was the exclusive North American licensee of Speedo.
It was the first stealth game set in the first person, dubbed a ' first person sneaker ' by the developers, and the first to use night and shadows as the mode of concealment.
* Smelling Bee – A parody of the Spelling Bee, the Smelling Bee has blindfolded school students smell wacky items, like a hobo with a sandwich, a chocolate cake with coconut icing on top of a large fish, and a skunk in a sneaker.
For example, in the role-playing video game Fallout, common character archetypes include the " shooter ", " survivalist ", " scientist ", " smooth talker " and " sneaker ", unofficial terms representing various possible means of solving or avoiding conflicts and puzzles in the game.
The selling of the Air Force Ones online by certain retailers used to be prohibited by Nike who had restricted supply of the sneaker.
The shoe is a typical flat-soled, casual-wear sneaker that can be made in many different variations of colors.
The Air Force One has become a favorite of sneaker collectors, often referred to as sneakerheads.
* In the 2005 film Just For Kicks, about sneaker culture in hip hop, as himself.
Sneaker boots are a type of shoe that mimics the visual appearance of a traditional sneaker, but is equipped with a high heel.
* In 1995 Cyd Jouny made a crossover between a basketball sneaker and a stiletto mule.
reached and out
He reached out to pull the door shut and fasten it with a sliding bolt.
Curt reached out and dropped Jess's pistol back into the holster.
Beaten with fear and sound and wet and chill, they crawled to the hurricane deck and looked out haggardly at a world of water that reached clear to the surrounding hills.
Ramey reached out with the tire iron and dislodged a chunk of mud that was caked on the spare tire rack.
Joviality suffused Feathertop Ernie Cargill's voice as he reached behind him, pulling out a battered carpet bag, with leather handles.
Gross reached in his desk and pulled out two newspaper clippings.
Even when Mrs. Coolidge was in mourning for her son, she reached out to help other people in trouble.
He reached out and felt the bath towel hanging on the towel rack over the tub.
The girl's eyes were softly shining as she reached out and touched Casey's hand.
Party leaders came out of the final meeting apparently satisfied and stated that complete agreement had been reached on a solution to the crisis created by the elections which left no party with enough strength to form a government on its own.
An exceptionally astute politician deeply involved with power issues in each state, he reached out to War Democrats and managed his own re-election in the 1864 presidential election.
The Annales school systematically reached out to create an impact on other countries.
By spring 1979 unrests had reached 24 out of 28 Afghan provinces including major urban areas.
A runner who reaches on catcher's interference and subsequently scores with two outs scores an unearned run, but baserunners who subsequently score after the runner who has reached on catcher's interference exclusively on clean plays score earned runs ; the baserunner cannot be assumed to have been put out except for the error.
Never admitting that he had reached a continent previously unknown to Europeans, rather than the East Indies he had set out for, Columbus called the inhabitants of the lands he visited indios ( Spanish for " Indians ").
Toward the end of Manuel I's reign, the number of foreigners in the city reached about 60, 000-80, 000 people out of a total population of about 400, 000 people.
Nine years after Emperor Paul Muad ' dib walked into the desert, blind, the ecological transformation of Dune has reached the point where some Fremen are living without stillsuits in the less arid climate and have started to move out of the Sietches and into the villages and cities.
A Chicago Cubs fan by the name of Steve Bartman, of Northbrook, IL, reached for the ball and deflected it away from the glove of Moisés Alou for the second out of the 8th inning.
Ratings reached a low of 8 million in February 1973, Pat Phoenix quit as Elsie Tanner, Violet Carson ( Ena Sharples ) was written out for most of the year due to illness, and Doris Speed ( Annie Walker ) took two months ' leave.
In his 2006 homily for Corpus Christi, Pope Benedict XVI noted the similarity between the Christian story of the resurrection and pagan myths of dead and resurrected gods: " In these myths, the soul of the human person, in a certain way, reached out toward that God made man, who, humiliated unto death on a cross, in this way opened the door of life to all of us.
He pointed out that the Saudis decreased their production of oil in 1985 ( it reached a 16-year low ), whereas the peak of oil productionwas reached in 1980.
Finally, " ambushers " hide and position themselves where no prey had reached yet and rush out when a monkey nears.
) The open pike is a variant where the arms are reached to the side, and the legs are brought straight out with a bend in the hips.
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