Word: griefs
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...broke it first in ninth grade, then again playing intramural football at the University of Texas. Has he considered having it fixed? "I get bombarded with those questions," he says. "I must look like a freak, but if I were to change it I would get so much grief from my brothers...
...York last week was a city double struck by tragedy, and its fear and grief were distilled in the story of the Gullicksons. During the long, sleepless nights, Naoemi says, she wonders what are the odds of life being so cruel to one family. Losing her husband, she thought, was more than she could bear. But then came her father's doomed flight, and the gaping hole in her life was blasted wider. "I never thought I could feel worse," the 38-year-old widow says. "But Jo would have helped me get through my father's death. I miss...
...refugee camps, it's the women more than the men who do the talking. The men are stoic in their grief, while the women keen. At a camp near Spin Boldak, on the road between the Pakistani border town and Kandahar, few Taliban were on patrol and the burqas were off. Most women wore shawls, and they revealed their faces, often decorated with tattoos on the chin and forehead, when they were speaking of how they escaped Kandahar during the bombing raids, or trekked for 15 days to reach a road when they were fleeing Uzbek troops advancing on their...
...support for this initiative, hundreds of members of Congress will have to sign the letter. Members of Congress will only sign this letter if they hear from their constituents that it is something they support. Legislators do not want to appear insensitive to the country’s grief and fury following the Sept. 11 attacks. We must show them that our grief and fury extend from the loud tragedies to the quiet tragedies as well...
...there comes a point when Greg's death begins making too much sense, when her grief loses its novelty and becomes scarily routine. This happened when her toddler Nicholas stopped reflexively asking for his father and started hugging people other than her. At first Nicole thought this was a sign he was adjusting, but then the worry set in. Would Nicholas' two-year-old mind begin to lose scant recollections of his father? "So now I just keep saying to him, 'Remember when Daddy used to do this or that,'" she says. And when they talk about Greg, Nicholas...