Word: kerchief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Roselah Hodrasadi, 37, clad in a long, soiled skirt and a black kerchief, is hacking away at the earth with a pick. She is trying to build a house. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has just given her a small plot of land, $500 in Lebanese currency, a canvas tent and ten bags of cement. She will need more than that to rebuild her family's life. Six months ago, the Ein el Hilweh refugee camp in which she lived was the home of nearly 25,000 people, a mixture of comfortable houses and rickety slums...
...stations of the Cross. Past the small Polish chapel that marks the spot where Jesus staggered and fell under the burden of his Cross, past the Armenian church that commemorates his encounter with his mother, past the Greek chapel that honors St. Veronica for wiping his forehead with her kerchief, past the Coptic church where...
Later, Nancy Reagan came out of the house in jeans and bright kerchief, carrying a box of trash. While her husband spends most of his time outdoors, usually with tools in his hands, she is indoors, talking for long periods of time on the telephone, reading, planning. Reagan hates the telephone and is almost grateful that Nancy uses it so often. The ranch is plainly her concession to her husband. She prefers being around people. But time alone with him is worth the remoteness, and she accepts...
...them clad in elegant spike heels and furs, the women were whisked away from the scene in government cars. Also removed was the body of a 19-year-old guerrilla shot by Asencio's bodyguard during the seizure. He was still wearing his green sweatsuit, a black kerchief covering his face...