Word: birching
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...sell the deal. The Indian embassy signed a $700,000 contract last fall with Barbour, Griffith & Rogers, an outfit led by Robert Blackwill, Bush's ambassador to India from 2001 to 2003. The embassy is also paying $600,000 to Venable, a firm that boasts former Democratic Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana as its point...
...Little Red Riding Hood? The Chronicles of Narnia? Robert Frost? Obviously the Shout Out Louds are on par with the best of literary-metaphoric writers. Or are they? What does it all mean? A lamp that, when lit, turns day to night...a path beaten back and forth through birch trees...a burnished red suitcase succumbing to the snow? The weight of these metaphors is far beyond my pseudo-science concentrator capabilities. I’ll leave the interpretation to you, literati. . . suffice to say that the video is worth a watch, if just for the chance to hear...
...although they see virtues in each other, can't quite become friends because each fails to understand why the other does things in such an odd way. The duck likes to glide back and forth in the water; the owl prefers sitting high up in a birch tree. The duck eats weeds from the bottom of the pond; the owl hunts small animals in the woods. The duck sleeps at night, the owl during the day. Eventually both realize, as the owl puts it, "I don't do things the wrong way, I do them a different...
...Prime Minister had spent a week in the public eye and held a series of meetings with visiting foreign leaders, the contrast with his predecessor was vivid. While Palme often dazzled his listeners with his rhetorical brilliance, Carlsson's speeches tended to be as wooden as Swedish birch. And while Palme could be arrogant and abrasive, Carlsson seemed cautious and conciliatory, more given to self-deprecation than grand gestures...
...sale of historical documents that cast doubts on official teachings about the origins of the Book of Mormon. Some Mormons are also anxious about the intentions of Benson, the 13th Prophet-President. A wavemaking, pepper-tongued right-winger, Benson acquired some notoriety in the 1960s for praising the John Birch Society and calling the civil rights movement Communist influenced. Other Benson targets: the U.N., the Supreme Court and disarmament negotiations with the Soviets. Speaking at the church-run Brigham Young University in 1980, Benson asserted that the Prophet-President speaks authoritatively on civil as well as religious matters, and that...