Word: deadly
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...Within hours, the turtle was dead, smothered under the weight of its adornment and Felicity had not yet bothered to remove the corpse from her dressing table. She thought it pretty...
...Uttering a guttural noise, Frederick took hold of her arms and threw her roughly to the floor. Their eyes met, and something passed between them that both had thought dead for many months. As Felicity looked up at him, breathing quickly and growling in anticipation of pleasure, Frederick lowered his trousers and descended upon...
...heighten tensions between Maliki and Sadr, whose forces have been fighting Iraqi and U.S. troops on the streets of east Baghdad for the past week. And ironically, it was announced after a relative lull in violence in Sadr City. In fact, Saturday night passed in Sadr City with no dead or wounded appearing in the hospitals of the battered Shi'ite warren, where clashes have left more than 100 dead. Overnight the gunfire that had rattled across the slum through the past several days slowed, and by late afternoon Sunday an edgy calm was emerging...
...Students should not take sessions with the Advisory Council merely as opportunities to whine and dine. Constructive criticism is always preferable to unrealistic requests that would be hard for HUDS to swallow. For example, students have always yearned for longer dining hall hours, but this is beating a long-dead horse. Another recommendation is to consolidate the House dining halls into two massive messes, but this too is a half-baked suggestion. (For one thing, it would destroy House life; for another, where would Harvard put them?) HUDS trusts us to help make an actual difference, and we should...
...story is stuffed into kitschy, reductive binaries: life versus death, Hispanic versus white.“Her Dog” isn’t a letdown because of its reductive symbolism and overt motifs, but because it’s just an inexplicable anomaly. A man walks his dead wife’s dog out of a sense of obligation. Nice notion—but the story quickly disintegrates into a hokey dialogue between the main character and the dog.In his stories about the military, on the other hand, Wolff beautifully zeroes in on the minutiae of life?...