Word: lamping
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...dark Arrow Steet room adorned with an antique lamp and fraying tassels, certain dreams came true, according to police reports...
...first days after the storm we dug on our lots like archeologists, searching for scraps and pieces of our past. My most treasured possession dug from the bayou is a lamp I bought from a Biloxi estate five years ago. My youngest stepson found it in the marsh behind my house, completely intact. The next day, search and rescue crews found the body of another neighbor nearby...
...education into the hinterland, where the schools reduced the curriculum to communist rote. Before he left, his father told him that no matter what the risk, "you need to learn." So, after 16 hours in the field each day, Dong stole away at night with a kerosene lamp to pore over two math and physics books his father had salvaged for him. Eventually the authorities caught on to Dong's reading, but since he disguised his books to resemble Mao's Little Red Book, they praised his party fervor. That reputation gave him the rare chance to attend college, leave...
...seem to be expected to leave their culture, color and accent behind. Long ago France gave the U.S. the Statue of Liberty, which is inscribed GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR. Attitudes have changed so much since her arrival, perhaps it's time to return the Lady with the Lamp to France...
...ideological war now rages within the south's Muslim communities. Militants disseminate their radical creed through leaflets hand-scattered at night in villages or stuck to lamp-posts in towns and cities. One found recently outside a mosque in Pattani's Yarang district excoriates the NRC and "Siamese infidels" who corrupt young Muslims with drugs and money. It warns the "people of Pattani state" to reject all efforts of reconciliation by non-Muslims. "A dog is still a dog, even if it befriends a goat," it says. "People read the leaflets and then destroy them," says a Muslim aid worker...