Word: floras
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...meantime, some families have moved into surrounding slums. Hundreds of others are jammed into tents just meters from the scene of the blaze. Flora Naig and her five-month-old daughter are living with 40 relatives and former neighbors in a five-meter?by?five-meter tent, and she hopes to sell some old clothes to buy milk for her infant. Naig has survived two previous fires in the past two years, both of which destroyed her residence. "We keep on being tossed around," she says, "from one corner to another...
Harvard outshot Cornell during the game 46-17, as the Crimson offense blistered Cornell goaltender Flora Vineberg with shot after shot. Beth Baronick relieved Vineberg for the final 15 minutes of the game...
...turns out, refusal ran in his family. Gauguin's maternal grandmother, Flora Tristan, was a spiritual fugitive of another kind, a pre-Marxist socialist visionary who traveled across provincial France in the 1840s, preaching a gospel of class justice and the liberation of women. In The Way to Paradise (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 373 pages) Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist, onetime presidential hopeful and perennial Nobel candidate, lightly fictionalizes their stories in alternating chapters, portraits of two literally kindred souls in revolt against the horsewhips and hypocrisy of the bourgeois order. Both of them rejected the world as they found...
...World” pads—Puck in San Francisco, for example. But now, even the Individual is an established role (see: Teck from Hawaii and Irene from Seattle). And the same personae keep reappearing in younger incarnations—Coral in New York carried the superbitch torch that Flora abandoned, while Matt in New Orleans filled the religious vacuum left behind by Los Angeles’ Jon. This season’s cast is a near-replica of that of two seasons ago: country hick; young, rebellious girl; strong, independent grrrl; angry black guy; frattish asshole; manipulative bitch...
...world was Howard’s laboratory. Over the course of five decades, he traveled to far-flung places all over the globe, but was best known for his research in the Caribbean, which produced a six-volume work entitled Flora of the Lesser Antilles, the most extensive record of plant life in the region to date...