Word: horror
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...covered a lot of ground, and a lot of people - some 43 million, by Congress's estimate. To be sure, the new law did not please everyone. Businesses griped about the cost of altering their bricks and mortar and, more vociferously, about fighting lawsuits claiming violations of the act. Horror stories, some even true, abounded of serial plaintiffs filing hundreds of cases against businesses they had never visited. Yet one way or another, the accommodations got made, and the nation was largely better...
...Highest Unit Re-enlistment Rate - Any outfit that has been in Iraq recently. All the danger, all the hardship, all the time away from home, all the horror, all the frustrations with the fight here - all are outweighed by the desire for young men to be part of a band of brothers who will die for one another. They found what they were looking for when they enlisted out of high school. Man for man, they now have more combat experience than any Marines in the history of our Corps...
...whole thing off with snow? Why not give lead singer Gerard Way a really unfortunate bleach job? There is actually a storyline of sorts in the video, in which a person with an undefined disease, attended by the kind of nurses rarely seen outside of music videos and horror posters is welcomed to the black parade. He gets a variety of fabulous prizes, such as what appears to be an extremely dour photo-op with the band, eye-socket-blackening makeup which makes him look more panda-like than dead, and a medal which presumably says, “Congratulations...
...given to using precious archaisms--sometimes you wish he would just say "with his arms held out" instead of "with his arms outheld." (Outheld?) But none of this really matters. The Road is a wildly powerful and disturbing book that exposes whatever black bedrock lies beneath grief and horror. Disaster has never felt more physically and spiritually real...
...year as assistant to the superintendent of Quincy House, I can attest to the disgusting reality that students face when living in the dormitories. I have heard stories from friends who have found roaches crawling up their legs in the shower and can attest to my own personal horror of finding a cockroach in my shoe early one morning. Exterminators have come again and again, but often the only response from Harvard is that this is the price we students pay for living in old buildings. The cockroach infestation was one of the main factors in my decision to leave...