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...contrary, I felt rather deprived of everything." After another pause, Gandhi began talking about when she was three and all her English dolls and dresses had to be destroyed because Indian nationalists were boycotting foreign goods. "My first memory was of burning foreign cloth and imported articles in the courtyard of the house. The whole family...
...mislighted fire last night filled Leverett House B with smoke and sent residents scurrying into McKinlock courtyard...
Discussing the outcome in the courtyard of Quincy House--the players' home for the week--the Cameroon players were even more bitter...
...elegant marble-floored courtyard of the gilded Golden Temple in Amritsar was strewn with bodies and blood. The once serene and peaceful 72-acre temple complex, the holiest shrine of the Sikh religion, stood scarred and bruised after 36 hours of fierce fighting between militant Sikhs and Indian government troops. In sweltering heat and the dust of the battle's aftermath, black crows and vultures perched on the temple's balustrades in search of grisly carrion. For the first time in the 400-year history of the Golden Temple, the 24-hour prayer vigil had ceased...
...landed aristocracy, the boyars. "Observing the brutal treatment that grown men inflicted on their fellows, he made ready to imitate them by tormenting animals," writes Troyat. "Standing on the ramparts of the Kremlin fortress, he would whirl young dogs above his head and hurl them down to the courtyard to break their bones. Their plaintive yelps satisfied an obscure need for revenge, as if these were hateful boyars he was putting to death." At 13, he no longer needed symbols. Toward the end of a banquet, he stood and ordered a boyar arrested. To the surprise of his guests...