Word: grottos
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LOURDES, France—"I must be the only New York City Jew for hundreds of miles," I think as I walk down the street towards the famous Grotto, one of the world's most visited Catholic pilgrimage sites, where in the mid-19th century St. Bernadette is said to have had a vision of the Virgin. After a restless overnight train, I am armed with my notebook and my Let's Go press pass, ready to be fascinated, repelled and intrigued. I'm not ready...
...hour later, I'm sitting on the pavement, and I've seen a parade of sick, disabled, and blind young and old, being wheeled or prodded towards the grotto to receive their blessing. Hearing poignant organ music in the background and operating on little sleep, I have been robbed of self-control; my sobs come in big hiccuping gulps that I hide as best I can beneath my sunglasses...
...Cunt cuddling” does not roll off the tongue any easier. Neither does “doodling the noodle,” “waxing the milk duds,” “rubbin’ the nubbin” or “groping the grotto...
...None of us really want the risk of someone saying in 15 years' time, 'When we sat on Santa's knee ...'" Gail Thompson, organizer of a New Zealand town's Christmas grotto, on why children will not be allowed to sit on Santa...
...pathetic as Eli is, he is an insidious pest. The task of eliminating the malformed menace from New Haven is a Herculean one, far beyond the reach of any one class or team. Harvard’s vast physical holdings will no doubt extend one day to the grotto where Yale now lurks. But until then we can only rely on our stellar football team to give Handsome Dan a thorough whipping where it hurts most—on his home turf...