Word: graving
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...resodding. "I'm gonna have to tell her," says Nancy wearily, "'You know what? We don't need to replant that grass because we're gonna dig it up again soon. We're gonna have this baby,'" she glances at her belly and then at the grave, "'and we already know that's where he's gonna go.'" Her new child is due on July 16. He will almost certainly be dead within a year...
...waterlilies, but the shovel blade went an inch down and hit rock. Everywhere I dug, I clanged against rock. I called in a guy with a back hoe and he harvested boulders for a couple of hours, until we had a hole big enough to be a bull's grave and ringed with enough rocks to build another house. This field has never been cultivated, for good reason, and, if domesticated at all, is meant for sheep. We once thought about tilling it and putting in something organized, like wheat. We gave up the idea...
...only with a gang of cutthroat kidnappers motivated by lucre and Islamic zealotry but also the needs of Big Brother in Washington, concerned about the fate of the three Americans. Arroyo wants to crush the "bandit-terrorists," as she calls them. "We'll give you the peace of the grave," she vowed after the rebels escaped an army siege two weeks ago. That's a good demonstration of the determination that is the bedrock of Arroyo's character?which transformed the former economist and bureaucrat into a popular politician who wasn't afraid to assume her country's presidency...
...issues. In response to American steelmakers' allegations of "dumping" by foreign manufacturers, the Administration may impose import tariffs on steel, an idea protested across Europe and Asia. "Bush is a single-minded ideologue," complains Portugal's former President, Mario Soares. "The U.S. is doing things that have grave consequences for the world." Some Europeans are angry about other issues, from "American cultural hegemony"--the Golden Arches on the Champs Elysees--to the perceived barbarism of the American death penalty. The planned execution of Timothy McVeigh has brought renewed protests from the E.U., where membership requires abolishing capital punishment...
...could keep six dogs "without the neighbors calling the cops." Her friends Bill and Kay Gabbard--a retired Marine Corps sergeant and his schoolteacher wife--distribute hundreds of Spanish-language textbooks to San Felipe schools. And Bruce Barber, a former food-company executive, combs the desert for the grave of a 16th century explorer. What brings them all to the far edge of the Sonoran desert? Lou Wells, a onetime railroad clerk, answers with a decal on the side of his VW dune buggy: NO BAD DAYS...