Word: blanketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bundled in a stark white hospital blanket, Rafael looks like any other month- old baby. But when his mother, Luciene das Dores, unwraps the snug cover, the sight is shocking: Rafael has no arms or legs. "I got very upset and started to cry when I first saw him," says Das Dores, 23, a part-time cleaning woman who lives in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. "When I saw him with only a head and a torso, I was devastated. I wanted to kill myself." She could not help feeling guilty: unaware that she might hurt her baby, she had taken...
...course there is no blanket policy," Keller said. "We take things on a case by case basis...
...prompter but needs it to relieve the stage fright that kept her away from live performing since a 1967 free concert in New York City, when she forgot some song lyrics. "I couldn't be doing this ((touring))," she says, "if I didn't have it as my security blanket. Some people have worry beads; I have TelePrompTers...
When Harvard University police officers responded to the call, they entered the open drop off room and found a young man lying on a counter, wrapped in a blanket, using laundry bags as pillows, speaking on his own telephone that he had connected into an outlet...
March is the cruelest month. They say it comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, but we all know better. March tantalizes us with its sporadic warm days, only to smother our hopes for spring with a blanket of snow the next week...