Word: barks
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...Ferdinand Magellan claimed the archipelago for Spain?and ended up dead after a battle with local chieftain Lapu Lapu. Jessica Hagedorn's Dream Jungle starts with an excerpt from a contemporary account of Magellan's Philippine visit, which describes comely native women clad in nothing but thin strips of bark "before their privies," suggesting that conquest can be inspired as much by lust as God and king...
...shirt that carries a similar message reads, “We’ll kick your ass today and fire your ass tomorrow,” bearing a melancholy bulldog with a sign “Will bark for fud.” Even the most die-hard Harvard fan cannot deny that Eli does pretty well in the real world, for example, in running for president. As much fun as it is to believe that we are in essence, better than our counterparts at Yale simply by virtue of our being Harvard students, these shirts make us look delusional...
...winds--the infamous Santa Anas--barrel out of the desert, driving small blazes (set in this case by a lost hunter and suspected arsonists) to savage frenzy. Making matters worse this time was the one-two punch of a multiyear drought (which weakened millions of trees) and a massive bark-beetle infestation (which killed off many of them). The Federal Government had just denied the state's request for more funding to remove dead trees when the fires hit. In a matter of days, 14,000 fire fighters found themselves arrayed along a chaotic front, often watching helplessly as flames...
...faith has to weave it.” She recounts a time when she and her mother were walking to a village known for its violent dogs. As they approached the village late at night, they prayed loudly—and “there was not a single bark from the village,” Wangmo says with joyful conviction...
...alternative to the typical Friday night, join the GBBCC for their “Thank Buddha It’s Friday” meditation and dinner (yes, the bark in the soup is edible—and healing to boot), held on the second and fourth Fridays of the month at 6:30 p.m. (suggested donation $5). The GBBCC is actually a Buddhist temple in the Chinese tradition of Fo Guang Shan, which Yifa, the Center’s director and resident nun, calls “co-humanistic Buddhism”—i.e. Buddhism that...