Word: honeying
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...sarcophagus outside and wedged it into their Toyota Hiace van. When they opened it less than an hour later in the Quetta police station, they found the mummified body wrapped in brown cotton cloth and stretched out on a woven mat coated with a mixture of wax, resin and honey. The mummy's gold crown and breastplate were engraved with the cuneiform writing used in ancient Mesopotamia and an image of Ahura-Mazda, the god of Zoroastrianism associated with ancient Persia. Encased in a heavy wood coffin, it was placed in what initially appeared to be a stone sarcophagus...
...protesting nervously outside the window of Mass Hall is sent on his way with a sharp “Hey, you!” Like parents humoring children into submission, the administration tolerates its students. A police officer declared, “we can get more from them with honey than with vinegar.” The only productive response is to use our student status to expand Harvard’s conception of “family.” This is what we do by sitting...
...Passover, we eat charoset, a mixture of apples, wine, nuts and honey to remind us of the mortar that the Israelites had to use to build storehouses for the Egyptians. At our seder this year, the charoset reminded us of the buildings that were being torn down in the West Bank and Gaza and of the settlements that are expanding in violation of the Fourth Geneva convention. We were also reminded of the mortar shells that Palestinians are firing on those Jewish settlements...
...apologize all the time, even when I think I've done nothing wrong - especially when I think I've done nothing wrong. (Honey, please forgive me for all my insincere apologies.) The point is, apologies are not about "I" or "me," they're about "you" - the other party. The aggrieved party. Even the party you think doesn't deserve to be aggrieved...
...didn't think so. One younger student, she said, had dutifully memorized the 10 "nonverbal communication skills" from our handout (vary your gaze, lean toward the patient, nod frequently, use hand gestures) and performed them all in rote sequence, prompting her concerned patient to ask, "Are you O.K., honey?" Another younger student, in a rush to get his patient's sexual history, asked her bluntly, "Do you have sex with men, women or both?" The grandmother of three, recovering from a heart condition, stared back dumbfounded...