Word: chins
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...groups of 20. Barefoot and sleeping together on mattresses on the floor, they exercised and grazed the camels 18 hours a day. During races, falls are frequent and the boys are often injured or even trampled to death. Yousuf, who has racing scars on his hands, ankles and chin, describes the routine: "The sheiks would drive along with the camels and give us instructions: 'Beat, beat, beat. You are slow. Beat, beat. Otherwise I will beat you.' And we used to beat [the camels] severely...
...wearing slightly different versions of the willowy rancher meets rugged mountain man outfit: a traditional wife-beater and stripped oxford (open, of course—wouldn’t want Dusty to overheat in the prairie sun), macho-man Texas-sized belt buckle and jeans. His seemingly unwashed, stringy, chin-length, dirty brown hair is either tucked innocently behind one ear or wisping across his rugged, bearded chin. Dusty is sensitive. He probably plays the banjo and knows how to speak Cherokee. He’s the kind of wilderness man who will throw an old quilt his grandmother stuffed...
...think at the snoring Winner on my left. “You’re amazing! The willpower and determination with which you’ve made this staggering sacrifice in the name of gaining an academic edge is astounding.” Her forehead bobs, chin flopping open. “You are truly an inspiration...
...There were seats available, but they were in the middle of the rows, and I couldn’t climb over people to get in them. So I sat on the floor. Having to write on my lap messed with my handwriting,” she explains...Bill S. Chin ‘05 sat at a left-handed desk in Science Center C on Wednesday. “I really need to rest my elbow on something to write smoothly, and the left-handed desk just didn’t provide that support,” he lamented...Kate...
...stoic in their grief, while the women keen. At a camp near Spin Boldak, on the road between the Pakistani border town and Kandahar, few Taliban were on patrol and the burqas were off. Most women wore shawls, and they revealed their faces, often decorated with tattoos on the chin and forehead, when they were speaking of how they escaped Kandahar during the bombing raids, or trekked for 15 days to reach a road when they were fleeing Uzbek troops advancing on their villages. Afghan women never struck me as submissive...