Word: kneeling
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...strategic places on the rim of California's San Joaquin Valley, men kneel in gravelike pits. Camouflaged with grass, they await their prey. A stillborn calf lies as bait within inches of each of the earthen blinds. Nearby, other men squat beside a row of four metal cannons, ready to fire weights attached to a 40-ft. by 50-ft. net. Frustrated, they all scan the sky, hoping that the wintry clouds collecting on the horizon do not close in. The 20-lb. Gymnogyps californianus rarely seeks food on stormy days...
...beginning, Eugenia visits a small chapel, a shrine to the Madonna of Childbirth. The chapel is half-dark, with ancient rows of pillars lit by hundreds of fluttering candles. All about, black clad women are performing the rituals of worship. Eugenia finds that she cannot bring herself to kneel, and asks the sacristan why only women are worshipping. He tells her that child-bearing and the church are their business; she says nothing in reply. All of a sudden, the air is full of small birds that are flying out of the statue of the Madonna...
...would be "forced to be free." In our day, the word democracy is so beloved of tyrants that some have named their countries after it, as in the German Democratic Republic (a.k.a. East Germany). And from Beirut to San Salvador, every gang of political thugs makes sure to kneel at least five times a day in the direction of "peace." So why not abuse civil rights...
...Bowie and fellow glitterbugs like Elton John and T. Rex, tried to keep going on the momentum of its own outrage. His concerts took on the dimensions of a Max Reinhardt extravaganza, with some added stage business that would have got Max busted back in old Berlin. Bowie would kneel in front of his lead guitarist Mick Ronson, clutch Mick's butt and apply his lips and tongue to the extremities of Ronson's Les Paul Custom...
...Referring directly to the banned independent farmers' union, John Paul recalled the support that the late Polish Primate Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski had shown to "representatives of Rural Solidarity" during a meeting in April 1981. The crowd roared even louder when John Paul told them he had come to "kneel in this place and pay homage," in a reference to a memorial to Polish workers slain in Poznan during riots in 1956. The monument, which consists of two intertwined crosses next to a stylized Polish eagle, was erected during the Solidarity era and was conspicuously omitted from the list...