Word: drapes
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...hope Ernest Hemingway, wherever he is, has a nice stiff drink - he's going to need one when he hears this news: The celebrated snows that drape the heights of Mount Kilimanjaro are melting at an alarming pace. According to researcher Lonnie Thompson, global warming is gradually erasing the blinding white cover, leaving instead a dull patina of rock. "The ice will be gone by 2015 or so," Thompson told the Associated Press...
Finally caught up, Venus stands next to her sister, both of them with pins in their mouth, a tape measure around their neck and chalk in their hands as they drape muslin over their mannequins. Adrian stops by and rearranges the pins Venus has misattached to the bustline. Venus looks surprisingly crestfallen, given that she must have taken a lot of rejection going door to door with her four sisters as a Jehovah's Witness...
...fabulous (ahem) sport if you like that sort of thing, but American baseball fans must surely admit that apart from a few stray Japanese and Cuban teams, baseball is something of a bust in export terms. So to drape the grandiose "World" in front of the word "Series" is a bit of a cheat. Up there with Ross Perot's pathetic use of the term "world-class" (whatever that meant) and the patronizing term "world music" - which loosely translated means anything not in English...
...cried. How could I have married a man who would make a drape assumption? He was confused; he didn't realize he had married a woman who sobbed over swag (which he always thought was something burglars made off with...
...past treatment of the Aborigines - a deserved and, in liberal opinion, an essential gesture of goodwill - by saying all this happened in their grandfathers' time, and the living bear no responsibilities for it. This is Prime Minister Howard's view too, although - significantly enough - he is quick to drape himself in the nobler emblems of Australian history with which his generation had nothing to do, such as the heroism of the soldiers at Gallipoli...