Word: graveyard
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...will not rebuild on the beach. It is a graveyard now. I'm leaving as soon as I get my insurance settlement...
...terrible, increasing death toll in Iraq and believe that the U.S. is actually winning. That kind of thinking reminds me of the surgeon who announces, "The operation was a success, but the patient died." I suppose Rice will declare total victory when Iraq has become the world's largest graveyard. Ronald Rubin Topanga, California, U.S. Sharing Journalists' Notes Time's decision to turn over Cooper's reporting notes [July 18] is akin to negotiating with terrorists. It only emboldens enemies of the First Amendment. The issue is not about Time magazine. It is about the public trust that you hold...
American Naturalist Dian Fossey often said that she preferred the gentle mountain gorillas she studied and lived among to the people who have made the creatures an endangered species. Perhaps fittingly, she was buried last week in the gorilla graveyard she had carved out of a lush, misty hillside in Rwanda, the central African country where the last of the mountain gorillas live...
...graveyard of Crimson hopes was packed with the all-too-familiar tombstones—the Wente heave, the double-overtime heartbreaker at Jadwin, the misses by Winter and Prasse-Freeman...
...difficulty of transforming Harvard’s approach to learning led then-University President Derek C. Bok to tell the Washington Post in September, 1979 that “changing undergraduate education is like trying to move a graveyard...