Word: kerchief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After wiping her face with a hand-kerchief, she continued, "I could not figure out how to run and not be separated from those I served. There must a way, but I haven't figured...
...sentences that would ease the pain suffered by families and friends of the estimated 9,000 people who disappeared during the dirty war. After Arslanian read the decision acquitting Galtieri and the others, Hebe de Bonafini, president of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, angrily donned a white kerchief embroidered with the human rights group's mournful motto, MAY THE DISAPPEARED APPEAR ALIVE. When De Bonafini refused to remove the offending garment, the judge ordered her to leave the courtroom. "I had no other way of protesting but to put on my kerchief when I heard that the killers...
Since this is an obscure--indeed, fictional--town on the periphery of civilization, I tossed together some of my most cherished belongings, wrapped them in a kerchief, and threw them over my shoulder for sustenance in the hinterland. Several train changes and a limousine ride later (courtesy of my generous editor), I found myself at the famous Pig-N-A-Poke fair in down-town Tumbleweed...
...station emerge a gruff man, probably the caretaker, and his toothless wife, whose single braid dangles two feet below the point of her kerchief. Also a daughter, her rosy face alight with mischief, and two dogs nearly as white as the snow. The man has the look of a lighthouse keeper whose island of solitude is being turned into a marina...
...welcomed a respite from the grown-up pressures that accompany most official duties. She and 56 other Girl Scouts set up camp at the Château de Marchais, the sprawling Grimaldi estate a few miles north of Paris. For the outing, the princess donned appropriate shirt and kerchief and joined in such camp activities as peeling vegetables, doing the dishes and sleeping under a tent Like everyone else. Said Caroline, who was a real scout until age 15: "It was like a bout of childhood, like going back to being twelve years old again." It could not last...