Tom Townsend pulled a quarter from his coat pocket.
THURSDAY, FEB. 4, 9 07 A.M. Mr. Patir, 59, pulled a quarter from a pocket.
One of them pulled a quarter out of her purse and asked, "If I give you this, what will you do with it?" Jauntily, the panhandler replied, "Well, I'm going to buy me a car with that quarter".
For the fifth straight game of The Finals, LeBron James pulled a fourth quarter disappearing act even the great Houdini would envy.
In another setting, he might have been a boy who had just seen a birthday magician pull a quarter from his ear.
One night last month aboard the A, she said, a magician was trying to pull a quarter from behind a girl's ear.
"When he walks in, you hear the whispers going around, 'Hey, that's Hank Chien.' " Dr. Chien eyed the Donkey Kong game against the wall, and a woman at the bar seemed to automatically pull a quarter out of her handbag and press it into his palm.
Once you have a fresh top, minus the fruit, leave the larger, spiky leaves alone, but pull a quarter of the small lower leaves down and off, exposing the stem, where you'll see small brown bumps called root initials -- the structures that will become the new roots.
It became a sort of party trick, like pulling a quarter from behind someone's ear, or drinking a jar of pickle brine.
To me, being told the mechanism by which yeast causes dough to rise is like finding out how a magician pulls a quarter out of his nose, or Snooki manages to keep that poof in place throughout it all.
Pull a quarter out of her ear (okay, so maybe not).
