Word: lushes
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...Jalladkhana, Hoque fights simply to keep the memory of those days alive. He reckons that there are thousands of other sites like this dotting Bangladesh's lush countryside. By one such spot north of the capital, he recalls, a stone epitaph erected there is inscribed with a bare message: "Passerby," it reads, "please stand here a moment...
...rush of feeling: So he really was what she had suspected. His wife’s fury, the brooding, the sighing, the long weeps on the rug in the study ... Frederick was an artist.* * * The footman coughed nervously as Felicity swept past him into the villa’s lush gardens. She didn’t bother to look at him; she knew she had seduced him already. Had he been last month or the month before?It was so hard to keep track. She had slept with all the servants, but it hadn’t seemed to help.Felicity...
...exchange for an ownership stake that will be determined by just how much money taxpayers have to pony up. The companies are to be operated as going concerns by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), their regulator. The FHFA has already told the CEOs to go (albeit with lush severance packages), but most other executives are being asked to stay. The companies' shares continue to trade, although their market value dropped more than 80% the day after the takeover was announced...
...board that he encountered Cameron. "There was a surreal Brideshead Regurgitated quality to the evening," says Worth, who went on to become a consultant and speechwriter for several heads of state. "I remember David quoting Winston Churchill extensively by memory - Churchill was a bit of a lush, so they were quotes about drinking - and he was very funny. A few people leaned over the side of the boat occasionally because if you've drunk two bottles of Champagne in an hour, your stomach is going to get queasy. I don't know if David had only sipped...
...These are words that, in India, one rarely says aloud. Through military force, acts of Parliament and two wars with Pakistan, India has held on tightly to Kashmir, and its attachment has always been a bit romantic. It isn't just the beauty of its lush valleys and jewel-like lakes. Kashmir is a test of the Indian national idea. Insisting that Muslim-majority Kashmir should and can be a part of Hindu-majority India speaks to the notion, admirable but perhaps naive, that a coherent, secular democracy can be fashioned out of dozens of different languages and faiths...