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...midmorning, all of the victims had been recovered. Their bodies were laid amid the seaweed on the private beach. Many of the dead had been badly battered and their clothes shredded by the pounding surf. One woman clutched a fist ful of sand. A man had his shirt twisted around his neck. Among the meager belongings washed up on the beach: a copy of the New Testament, wrapped in plastic to protect it from the water. It was the worst such accident since some 50,000 illegal immigrants from the poverty-stricken Caribbean nation began arriving on U.S. shores...
Durang shakes a stormier fist at God in Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You. Those who do not find the play abominably blasphemous (and some may) will find it damnably funny. The parody, this time, is of Roman Catholic elementary school education and, by extension. Catholic faith, dogma and practice...
...Frank found that out when he accused her of being "theoretical." Fenwick, who had yielded the floor to the Massachusetts congressman during a House debate, reacted as though she had been accused of murder in the first degree. Promptly seizing the microphone, she glared at Frank and flailed her fist...
...Cameron Tuttle knotted the game at two, the see-saw battle continued when Harvard's Carrillo launched a bomb on the Brown goal, putting the ball in from, literally, a quarter-field away. The shot stunned both teams, and as the ball sailed under the crossbar, Carrillo raised her fist and emphatically punched the cool night...
Cheng's tantalizing floater serve is her most devastating offensive weapon; the ball is hit in an overhand motion on the bottom of the fist, aimed towards a gap or weak link in the opponent's defense. Cheng's floaters usually force a weak return that enables the team to "gain control of the point" and eventually put away the spike, Romero said...