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  • Neumann One, who, if he were not scheduled to die ten weeks from now in the Allied invasion of Normandy, might have become a barber later in life, who would have smelled of talc and whiskey and put his index finger into men's ears to position their heads, whose pants and shirts always would have been covered with clipped hairs, who, in his shop, would have taped postcards of the Alps around the circumference of a big cheap wavery mirror, who would have been faithful to his stout wife for the rest of his life—Neumann One says, "Time for haircuts."†  (source)
  • It's very sunny nearly all the time, with the snow-capped Alps in the background and the crystal-blue Mediterranean in front of it.†  (source)
  • Holly followed the Italian coast up to Monaco and from there across the Alps to France.†  (source)
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  • In the Pyrenees and the Alps, entire villages would essentially hibernate from the time of the first snow in November until March or April.†  (source)
  • They also enforce traffic regulations on all highways and byways operated by Fairlanes, Inc. A few different FOQNEs also use them: Caymans Plus and The Alps, for example.†  (source)
  • The last time we see them, though, her eyes are bulging out as he strangles her, until suddenly he stops, overcome by revulsion, and skis off to his own death in the highest reaches of the Alps.†  (source)
  • Spaced at intervals from five miles to half a mile, these mountains with their knife-edged ridges of brittle igneous rock rivaled the Alps in size.†  (source)
  • Across the room, a painting of what appeared to be the Swiss Alps.†  (source)
  • With or without Saint-Tropez or the Costa Brava or the Alps.†  (source)
  • I can't wait to see what the girls do with their lives now there is no one to tell us we can't climb a mountain in Istanbul or fly a plane over the Swiss Alps or even just take a walk by ourselves down a quiet street.†  (source)
  • When they fly over the Alps, his father gets out of his seat to take pictures of the snowcapped peaks through the window.†  (source)
  • They say she even marched over the Alps with Hannibal's army in 218 BC.†  (source)
  • What about that dog in the Swiss Alps that tried to tear your arm off?†  (source)
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