Word: lota
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...explaining to do as she campaigns for a parliamentary seat in Pakistan. The 61-year-old, two-time member of the National Assembly is a veteran of the country's rough-and-tumble politics: she has switched political parties four times. That has helped earn her the derogatory epithet lota, the round-bottomed (and thus wobbly) pitchers used in Pakistani bathrooms. But this time around, Hussain has a powerful ally: the ghost of Benazir Bhutto, the popular former Prime Minister who was assassinated on December...
...significant event in our poetry, it’s part of a continuing alteration in the scale of American life.” Born in Worcester, Mass., Bishop was also a resident of Key West, New York, Boston, and Brazil, where she lived for 16 years with her partner Lota de Macedo Soares. Bishop’s life was one plagued with tragedy: her father died before her birth, a boyfriend committed suicide leaving her with a postcard, “Go to hell, Elizabeth,” and de Macedo Soares died by overdose. A close friend of confessional...