Word: gardened
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...disabled, but she manages to work small miracles for her 12-year-old son Jonathan, who is emotionally disturbed and has learning difficulties. And she does so on a family income of just $241 a week. She stretches a $30-a-month grocery budget by planting a large vegetable garden outside her home in rural Middletown, Md., and by taking Jonathan to a food pantry where they volunteer in exchange for food. She sets aside money in meticulous expense ledgers for Jonathan's outings with a local teacher who teaches him socialization skills, and a little more for his twice...
Circa A.D. 33 In The Gospel According to John, as Jesus is being arrested outside the Garden of Gethsemane, St. Peter cuts off the right ear of Malchus, a servant of the high priest. In The Gospel According to Luke, Jesus reattaches...
...values and valuables for the ones most worth hanging on to. The evidence suggests that all this change is making Americans more conservative, not so much politically as psychically, sending them back to church or into bookstores looking for volumes about how to live an authentic life--making them garden and recycle and learn yoga and search for steadiness and security and a little peace...
While change makes people uneasy, prosperity makes them adventurous. Highway 50's towns are settled and unsettled by the heirs of the Forty-Niners, the newly liberated telecommuters and mutual-fund-toting retirees and boat people homesteading in Garden City, Kans., writing a Vietnamese-language instruction manual for Windows 95 and declaring with a smile, "We are searching for freedom"--delighted by both the cliche and the profound truth behind...
...rematch between Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson was billed as "The Sound and the Fury," borrowing a line from Shakespeare's Macbeth. How fitting then that Saturday's World Boxing Association heavyweight championship fight at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas turned out to be not only a tragedy but also a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing...