Word: cone
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Here in a Science Center classroom, Amarrah sits beside Woo—tossing her shoulder-length brown hair, drawing an ice cream cone with sprinkles, and chiming in with questions and occasional commentary...
...It’s gone, dead.” Returning from the proverbial underworld, participants partake of the “fruit of life”—apple slices—before ending the ritual with a dance to raise energy in a “Cone of Power.” Despite the ritual’s focus on death, the realm of the dead doesn’t feature any red horns or pitchforks: “We have nothing to do with the devil,” says Phoenix...
...Brattle crowd then followed Braff back to the steps of the Lampoon, where Poonsters presented him with a baseball cap, a bowling trophy labeled “Al’s Birthday, 1994,” a mock degree in medicine, and an oversized model of an ice cream cone. Braff was then given the honorary title of “Ice Cream...
...reporting in Iraq, Sri Lanka after the tsunami, New Orleans after the levees broke, Argentina after the economic collapse in 2001. So, reporting in disaster zones combined with a great deal of historical reading about the key junctures where the ideology of unfettered capitalism leapt forward - the southern cone of Latin America in the '70s, Bolivia in the '80s, [Margaret] Thatcher's Britain during the Falklands War, Russia in the mid-'90s under Boris Yeltsin, the Tiananmen Square massacre...
...activity below. She noted that her body on the bed wore a green gown with a split in the middle, and that she was otherwise completely covered. "I was calling out, 'Don't cut me. I'm still awake.' " She saw an incandescent light in the shape of a cone. "Then, boom," she says: her floating self rocketed to the cone's tip and . . . nothing...