Word: kerchiefed
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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...
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...