Word: froing
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...country's charms begin revealing themselves. Lower the window and watch as the rickshaws and pollution give way to rice paddies and simple villages. Crossing countless bridges, you're soon deep into a virtual marshland. Ferries ply the many canals and waterways in a constant cycle of to and fro, back and forth. At the mouth of the Karnaphuli river lies Bangladesh's main port. The country's second city, Chittagong has been a center of trade and transport for 2,000 years. Porters lean almost prone as they haul carts piled 4 m high along the quay. Stroll...
...nonchalance and swagger that Satan affects at the start of the Book of Job, when the sons of God come to present themselves before the Lord, and the Lord says to Satan, "Whence comest thou," and Satan, with his evasive, insinuating smirk, replies, "From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down...
...Meantime, evil goes to and fro in the earth, and walks up and down in it. In Thursday morning's edition of the New York Times, a Chandra Levy story appears on page A-22: "POLICE ASK CONGRESSMAN TO TALK ABOUT INTERN." Right next to that story is a picture of a woman wearing glasses, staring straight ahead, with her hands in her lap, and a caption that is disturbing in a different vein: "Andrea Yates in custody yesterday after calling officers to her Houston home, where her four sons and one daughter, ages 6 months to 7 years...
...most part, magical. Sure, I found things to grouse about: Even ensconced in the legendarily comforting to-and-fro motion of the train, I didn?t sleep for even a second (Ed, however, slept for 10 hours a night). And when we got off the train in Seattle, we both stood there for a few long minutes, inhaling hungrily. The air on a passenger train is, as you might have guessed, not exactly daisy-fresh after a day and a half of incessant inhaling and exhaling...
...Heig, in 1985, she moved into a succession of nearby rentals. Though she always managed to find a place within a couple miles of Jim's house, that distance seemed to grow longer and more inconvenient as they chauffeured the kids--Morgan, then 6, and Patrick, 5--to and fro every 3 1/2 days. When Adair got married six years later, to cookbook editor Bill LeBlond, the newlyweds began looking for a home to buy but found nothing they could afford in the city. Morgan was showing signs of what was to become a turbulent adolescence (documented in Adair...