Word: ashe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With so much at stake, it is almost frightening for Iranians to realize how much of their national destiny rests on the health and vision of one 78-year-old holy man. There are Khomeini posters everywhere, not to mention Khomeini coins, plaques, plates, ash trays, calendars and T shirts. The faithful wait in line for hours to catch a glimpse of him, and the truly lucky get close enough to toss a shawl or a handkerchief in his direction. Some Westernized Iranians are not particularly impressed by this evidence of a personality cult abuilding. "We didn't take...
...moment. I really grew panicky when Gilles switched his lit cigarette from his right hand to his mouth. Even that I could live with until he leaned over to peer down into the tank to see if it was full. All I could see was that huge, red ash, growing longer by the moment, poised directly above the diesel, ready to fall. Just when I was sure the ash would drop into the tank, he stepped back and tossed the cigarette to the ground. He probably never knew why I was so shaken that afternoon. I could not, of course...
...bright, and he had kept singing when the greyness of middle-age rose all around, but finally he was silent, and they were left to face the future without the reassurance of his music. After visiting the grave most of the women visited Elvis shops, as though Elvis ash trays and posters and glasses would fill the void. They came away with armfuls of souvenirs...
Until last spring, the Comoro Islands were known, if at all, chiefly as a source of ilang-ilang, an exotic flower whose extract is widely used in French perfumes. Now the Comoros are called the Mercenary Isles. Last spring the four tiny specks of volcanic ash off the coast of Mozambique were invaded by a motley troop of white soldiers of fortune, who took over the hapless islands lock, stock, and ilang-ilang...
...grave robbers damage antiquities and also trample on important archaeological clues, such as ash, seeds and bone fragments, that can reveal much about ancient civilizations. U.S. Archaeologist Emil Peterson tells how he and his team of diggers from Quito's Central Bank museum would spend weeks at a site, painstakingly excavating only a few inches at a time in order to preserve all possible traces. Then one morning they would find that thieves had come by in the night and obliterated most of the evidence. Eventually, barbed wire had to be installed and guards posted...