Word: halfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Resembling Shaquille O'Neill by missing 4-of-5 free-throw attempts, Mayshak got himself into foul trouble early, drawing his fourth foul two minutes into the second half...
...story had leaked out somehow, likely through Yosef, who claimed that he had dreamed it but nonetheless married her, took in Yeshu and made other sons and daughters on her body. All of them grudged the favors their mother gave Yeshu as her eldest child; he was only half their brother...
...half-hour later he'd led them back to the olive grove and the cave at Gethsemane where they'd been sleeping. Eight of them went straight in, dead beat, and stretched out on the floor near the oil press. But Jesus took Peter, James and John and pressed on a few yards into the dark grove. He asked the inner three to wait while he prayed. They were tired as the others, but they nodded that they'd wait, and he walked ahead some dozen paces to the oldest tree. It had half consumed one end of a table...
...heard him use it in private prayer a time or two, and John especially thought it was eerie and unbecoming. The God who was leading this man was no father tossing a child. By then Peter and James had dozed off, but John--being younger--managed to stay half awake through most of the prayer. He could hardly see Jesus, just flashes of his face when the moon broke clear, and then it was wrenched by an agony greater than the joy they'd seen when he came down toward them on Mount Hermon after his meeting with Moses...
Gudermes is muddy and miserable and seems half-empty. As in Grozny, some residents are holed up in apartment blocks that look to Western eyes as if they have been rendered uninhabitable by artillery fire. The city has no lights, no gas, no work. As our convoy drives up to the Gudermes administrative office with its fake Greek columns, we are met by a crowd of local citizens. We assume they have been bused in to voice their support and enthusiasm for the Russian presence. In fact, they have come to complain. Russian troops--in particular the special assignment police...