Word: blanketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...farthest bed next to a window, the sprawled body takes up only a fragment of the cot. Rahmat Hussain, 10, is not the only child on the floor, but he is the most seriously injured. Most of the time, the bandaged wound is covered by a thin, dirty green blanket. With a tentative smile, as if offering a guest a cup of tea, his older brother, Tor Kham, volunteers to pull back the blanket...
...think [the new guidelines] will accomplish the goals of the policy in general, and at the same time, policy will permit certain activities to go forward, which will provide for the public good, but which would have otherwise not been allowed by a blanket provision," says Andrus Professor of Genetics Philip Leder, a committee member...
Worldwide demonstrations, blanket media coverage and a variety of corporate sponsors all marked the 20th anniversary of the first Earth...
Hussein spent the rest of the race hiding from the press in the Red Cross van. As he helped me get out a blanket for another runner at the station I asked...
...place, Smith's case in favor of "giving the gift of a smile or a polite greeting" is limited and short-sighted. The desperation that impels people to beg for money is beyond being restored by a pitying greeting form passers by. Sleeping on grates wrapped in a ragged blanket involves the loss of more dignity than is redeemable through "just saying hello." Smith overestimates the power of a greeting if she really believes that it is "priceless" to the poor that she condescends to greet...