Word: marooned
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...bridge over a fast-running, turquoise river at the base of the monastery hillock. More than one monk has been swallowed up by the treacherous waters here as he leaned out to wash his clothes. Crossing, and ascending the last curve, we surprise a group of novice monks in maroon robes pelting one another with snowballs. Embarrassed, they run off, leaving us alone to enter the courtyard, which is deserted save for the occasional herder passing through with his goats. Clouds hang low, draping the gilded rooftop. Tsurphu, an imposing red-brown block complete with a blue and gold standard...
...Oval Office by 9, Cheney walks in his polished maroon cowboy boots down the hall to his West Wing office, where he huddles with his chief of staff, Lewis ("Scooter") Libby, and other senior staff members to go over the day's schedule. Though Cheney has three other offices in town--two in the Capitol and one in the Old Executive Office Building, across the street from the White House--he, like Al Gore before him, plans to spend most of his time in the one closest to the President. That may be where the comparison between...
...school parking lot as much as possible, so I will expect you to turn in your papers there. I have no e-mail out there and no phone, so the best way to ask about anything is to go over to the parking lot and find me. Approach the maroon VW Beetle--always from the left!--and knock on the window. My office hours have been arranged by the department in Vanserg, and, again, due to the nature of my project, I will only be able to hold them between 10 p.m. and midnight on Fridays and between...
...magic out of it. And while I know part of the point of this is to be able to show lotsa hot chicks in bikinis, well, isn't that why we have "Temptation Island"? So, a modest proposal for "S3": Use real tribesmen, from, say Paupa New Guinea, and maroon them in downtown Newark for two months...
Three hundred maroon tee shirts will be decorated with a small football silk-screened on the front, with text announcing the game. On the back: "Yale's new URL: www.safetyschool.org...