Word: drier
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...bodies were buried in the sludge, their location sometimes marked by pools of blood on the surface. Other corpses lay half visible in miniature bogs that were as treacherous as quicksand. Some exhausted survivors lay on the surface of the mud in shallows, or staggered along in shock on drier ground. Many of the living were naked or only partly clothed; their garments had been torn from them by the swift-moving lahar. All were encrusted with ash-colored goo that quickly hardened under the next morning's sun into a gritty carapace. Many of the survivors had suffered serious...
...only geographically-accurate districts, but also ones who would elect more moderate (and perhaps Republican) members to the State Assembly. But in Congress, Republican members are openly worrying about the implications of Schwarzenegger's plan, because redrawing lines could put them in danger of losing seats. California Republican David Drier, who was one of the governor's biggest supporters during the recall, has already come out against the redistricting idea, and the Los Angeles Times estimated that only four of the state's 20-member Republican congressional delegation supports the idea...
...government that has as many women ministers as men, and alternates them down the hierarchy, causing some to dub it la cremallera (the zipper). He canned the previous government's pharaonic €4 billion plan to divert water from the Ebro River in the north to drier regions further south, proposing a more modest desalinization program instead. He increased the minimum wage, pledged to do the same for pensions, and launched an unprecedented war against the dark side of Spanish machismo, stiffening laws against domestic violence and proposing the legalization of gay marriage and rapid, no-fault divorces. A radical...
...fellow staff members and I crawled into the girls’ tent to cheer them up and try to find them slightly drier clothes, and listened to the boys recount the tale of the heroic escape from their collapsed tent, we were experiencing the positive energy that pervades the Summerbridge community...
Instead of packing a hair drier, why not buy one when you get there...