Word: bellowses
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“Oh Paul, that’s a big one. Can you give me a two-wheeler?” he bellows, beckoning for shy, bespectacled Arlington resident Paul Riley—another mail room worker—to bring him a dolly.
At 4:30 a.m. the room stirs. We stumble outside. The air is frigid and the last stars hang like frozen embers. With Khwaja, I move up to the firing line in the cinema to join the machine gunner and watch the milky whiteness of dawn. Orders are not to...
My father was a missionary among the colored, or mixed-race, people of Beaufort West in an area of scrubland that is South Africa's version of Arizona. That's where I was born, and now the house where I was born is a museum. Next door is the church...
The pilgrims would have shared the road with ox teams hauling huge slabs of limestone. Jerusalem, like today's Chicago, New York City or London, was a huge, ongoing building project. The sounds of construction would have mixed with the bleats and bellows of sacrificial animals for sale in streetside...
The scene must have been spectacular. Whether that spectacle is understood as deeply felt or empty depends on later interpretation. "The place was as vast as a small city. There were literally thousands of priests, attendants, temple soldiers and minions," writes historian Paul Johnson. "Dignity was quite lost amid the...