The town is certainly down at heel by comparison with the nearby capital, though it has a mildly exotic flavour in other respects, including five tattoo parlours on the main street.
Instead, they were taped and braced at the heel, looking more artificial than natural.
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They have kept it in sparkling condition, and primped some slightly down-at-heel rooms with subtle redecoration.
For the time being, strong family ties help keep destitution at bay for most of the down-at-heel.
There is not much to the village now: a few boarded-up houses, a couple of shops, a down-at-heel courthouse.
Through that time, the programme set and I have had a series of make overs but somehow both of us have always managed to look rather down-at-heel.
Leave the glitzy heart of Riyadh or Jeddah, the two main cities, and you find down-at-heel suburbs where poor Saudis live side by side with poor Asian and African workers.
"Orphans, " Lyle Kessler's 1983 play about a shady businessman who takes two down-at-heel brothers under his wing, has finally made it to Broadway after being mounted by just about every regional theater in America.
These salon shoes, however, look practically quaint when compared to Iris van Herpen's snub-nosed bondage booty or Mr. Tatehana's aerodynamic platforms, which have no heel at all and look like slippers for a space alien.
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Where is the angry performance art from the brilliant Bart Scott, who concluded Sunday's Pats upset by thundering at ESPN like a WWE heel?
You might hesitate at first to rest the heel of your palm on the tablet while you're doodling, but you may as well get comfy: the tablet won't register any markings where your hand was.
Nicks worked out with Manning at Duke, but the former Tar Heel would have preferred another venue.
They make the ball dance at their feet, pull off Brazilian style heel passes, and every set piece in the attacking zone seems destined for the goal.
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Harvey loves the success his ex-teammate is having, and was delighted at the thought of the two ex-Tar Heel pitchers making it big in New York.
Feels like: A sharp pain in your heel (or heels) that's at its worst when you get out of bed.
Nets starting guard Joe Johnson, who has a sore left heel, went through warm-ups but was ruled out at game-time, missing his third straight game.
Mr Abhisit has wagged his finger at the group's bad behaviour, but is unlikely to bring it to heel.
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Plus, rather than kicking the ball with your foot, where you at least have some level of sensitivity, you strike it with the bony part of your heel.
But I doubt he ever expected his own alma mater would be at the heart of a major NCAA investigation concerning improper benefits and academic fraud within the Tar Heel football program.
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