Word: blanket
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Case in point: Burma, or Myanmar, the indigenous name used by the generals who annulled democratic elections a decade ago. Repressive and corrupt, the junta has managed to avoid blanket sanctions by the West. But campaigners are demanding a travel boycott, taking their lead from Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi whose National League for Democracy won the 1990 vote. She maintains that tourist dollars prop up the regime. Another deterrent: International Labor Organization reports say forced labor was used on tourist projects...
...serving a four-year term on murky charges of illegal business dealings?has suffered frostbite while in solitary confinement where he has spent much of the winter sleeping on the bare cement of his sub-freezing cell. Guards denied her request to bring him a blanket. "I was so angry but felt so powerless," says Liu, a ticket seller in a Beijing park for the past 20 years. In their letter the two invited i.o.c. members to meet them personally for "a true and complete inspection of the city...
...sleep. But I did, and by six o'clock, too. Kids are sleepy, I realize (now that I have one of my own). The alarm, which I'd triple-checked for accuracy and reliability, woke me at 11:20. I quietly got out of bed and dragged a blanket with me into the living room. I turned on the TV which (thank God) still worked. But could the TV Guide have been wrong? It seemed inconceivable, but I wouldn't relax until I saw the opening title. I was the only one up in the house. I turned...
Case no. 309 in the Tugela Ferry home-care program shivers violently on the wooden planks someone has knocked into a bed, a frayed blanket pulled right up to his nose. He has the flushed skin, overbright eyes and careful breathing of the tubercular. He is alone, and it is chilly within the crumbling mud walls of his hut at Msinga Top, a windswept outcrop high above the Tugela River in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province. The spectacular view of hills and veld would gladden a well man, but the 22-year-old we will call Fundisi Khumalo, though...
Gertrude sits upright on a donated bed in a cardboard shack in a rough Durban township that is now the compass of her world. Perhaps 10 ft. square, the little windowless room contains a bed, one sheet and blanket, a change of clothes and a tiny cooking ring, but she has no money for paraffin to heat the food that a home-care worker brings. She must fetch water and use a toilet down the hill. "Everything I have," she says, "is a gift." Now the school that owns the land under her hut wants to turn it into...