Word: erect
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...middle of Arizona's Sonoran Desert, the bright-blue flag and the 65-gal. water tank are hard to miss. This is no mirage; it's the work of a small volunteer group called Humane Borders, which last year began to erect emergency watering stations in the desert to help aliens stay alive as they try to enter the U.S. As the Rev. Robin Hoover hauls heavy plastic containers of water from his car, he explains its mission: "We want to take death out of the equation...
...think we need to see it in writing," he said, adding that HPRE is optimistic that it will be able to erect a new building on the site because most members did not seem to be opposed to granting a demolition permit for the current wooden structure...
...Corner do not carry such garbage. How would you feel if the newsstand on the corner sold a cartoon called “Chester the Molester,” in which a young Jewish girl is lured by a dollar bill attached to a string to the erect penis of an elderly man? I would feel shocked and outraged; I do feel shocked and outraged, because Chester the Molester is available for your reading pleasure in Hustler Magazine, for sale at Out of Town News and Nini’s Corner...
...Nonzee drapes a mosquito net over the bed and parts it so the camera can watch through a gap. The girls get up from behind the monitor in an adjoining room where Nonzee orchestrates the shots, take a big sigh and get ready to rumble. "Action!" The girls sit erect on the bed, kissing each other. Nonzee strains on a succession of cigarettes as he looks through the lens; he is concentrating so hard that at one point he whacks his head on his monitor...
With the coming of night, the group decided to erect a makeshift shelter and hunker down on their backpacks to sleep...