Word: gush
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...Then, they got on the 20 busses that were awaiting them, and after quite a long wait they started in the slow procession out of Gush Katif. Just out of Gaza Strip, people from the local kibbutzim greeted them with refreshments. The next stop in the journey was, according to the evictees' request, the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. It was almost 1:00 AM when they arrived to the ancient, sacred site, but the place was packed. The Hilburgs have a daughter who lives in the city of Modiin, halfway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv; they spent the night...
Sunday was Tisha B'Av, a day of fasting when Jews remember the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. It was also the last day before the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the Gaza Strip would be sealed off, and all residents would be expected to leave...
...Angel, a driver for the regional Gush Katif bus company, says, "We feel that we are being thrown to the dogs. Why should we leave? Why should we be forced to give up this paradise? I am concerned for the next generation of Israelis, because we are giving up land all the time. It's continuous...
...Angel, who has seven children, notes a marked deterioration in relations with the police and army since June, when they began closing Gush Katif with roadblocks to prevent potential infiltration by protesters. "It's very frustrating," he says, though he won't comment on the possibility of violence during the withdrawal...
...Quayle, a British diplomat stationed in Kenya, is told that his young wife Tessa may have been killed while on a research trip with another man. As the camera holds on him, searching for a reaction, Fiennes doesn't conjure up a rage or a gasp. He doesn't gush a stream of tears or obscenities. He moves hardly at all. Yet alert viewers will see his pale face turn a shade ashen. They will watch his spirit sink as he struggles to retain propriety. Somehow a symphony of grief, suspicion and copelessness plays lightly on his sharp, elegant features...