Word: marooned
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Maples Pavilion in Palo Alto, with its vibrating parquet and passionate, maroon-decked faithful, is a big-gym fetishist's fantasy. So when the Harvard women's basketball team marched into Maples for its first-round NCAA Tournament game against topseeded Stanford last season, Janowski was on cloud nine even before her team waltzed out with the biggest victory in its history...
Then we are off again, to fly farther south and east to the Maroon Saramaccan village of Asindopo in the region of the Upper Suriname River. Asindopo means "sit down and hope"--a welcome thought to its original settlers, runaway slaves from Dutch plantations in the 18th century. We go by corjal to visit their descendants. Some are swimming; some are washing clothes in the river; some are staring at us. The faces of the children are a cross between innocence and gravity. On a far bank, a glorious ceiba rises to the sky. It is called the "house...
...Franklin Street resident reported that at 1 p.m. a 5'7" 40-year-old male wearing glasses, maroon pants and a white shirt opened the door to her apartment and entered as she sat in a wheelchair facing away from the door. She reported that he bent over her and said, "I have food for you," showing her a bag of canned goods. At the same time, he stole her wallet from her purse, and then fled. Her wallet was discovered empty in the stairwell...
...more jarring, then, that upon arriving in New York City last Thursday to start a 16-day American tour, the icon of enlightened harmony was met by demonstrators. And not just any protesters, but saffron- and maroon-robed Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns hefting a sign that read DALAI LAMA, PLEASE GIVE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM and accusing him of suppressing devotions to a deity known as Dorje Shugden. The pickets thus introduced a startled public to a long-simmering drama featuring charges and countercharges of everything from sacrilege to bullying to murder, most of it allegedly done by holy...
...Memorial Drive resident reported he was struck by a maroon Ford while riding his bicycle on Mass. Ave. near Memorial Drive on Nov. 13. The resident stated that he was knocked off his bicycle and that the front wheel of his bicycle was damaged. The driver of the Ford fled the scene without identifying himself to the bicycle rider...