Word: closedness
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As she dismounted, his face was submerged in the warm, diaphanous folds of her riding habit. He could smell her perfume intermingled with the musky essence of her being. He felt the muslin sweep down his face, at first in abundance, then diminishing where it closed around her waist, and...
Felicity had felt every hard muscle as she slid down his unyielding length. She could feel her own body quiver, as though she had lost control. He held her against him for an instant without letting her feet touch the ground. Their eyes were locked together, and in his hazel...
The Argentine-born Andres Oppenheimer, a Miami Herald columnist and co-recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, contrasts Latin America with tigers like Ireland and China in Saving the Americas: The Dangerous Decline of Latin America and What the U.S. Must Do (Random House; 300 pages). He tells the story of...
Something is about to change--but almost certainly for the worse. Higher labor costs, a strengthening Chinese currency and soaring raw-materials prices are bad enough. Now a slowdown in global growth and a likely full-blown recession in the U.S. are about to stress-test China's manufacturing sector...
For now, there is relief that the children have been removed, but sadness at the tears of their mothers. "The abuse is not going to stop and that's my fear. My fear is that this will be for naught," Helen Pfluger says. "But any way you look at it...