Word: marooning
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...techno emerged. From Prince’s “1999” and Madonna’s “Holiday” in the 80s, to Whitney Houston’s “I’m Every Woman” in the 90s, to Maroon 5’s “Makes Me Wonder,” and ,most recently, Rihanna; the hi-hat and cowbell have lingered. They’re less and less surreptitious. With the recent digital release of reissues by artists like Russell, the sensibilities of those early innovators are more...
...Dalai Lama fled his homeland for exile in India in 1959, and has since become a familiar, maroon-robed presence on the world stage in a tireless, peripatetic campaign to win his homeland some degree of autonomy and preserve Tibet's traditional culture. This year he has found himself in an increasingly impossible situation since the riots in March, analysts and academics say. Younger and more radical forces among the some 100,000-strong exile community in India have increasingly called for a tougher stance against Beijing, particularly as reports of alleged further abuse, including arrests and shootings of demonstrating...
...Ziad (father of Ziad), Hafedh Aboud Mehdi, 58, woke up on the morning of June 25, packed a lunch for himself and his son, as he often does, and left his home in Baghdad's central Karrada district at 7:30 a.m. He was driving his 1996 maroon Opel Vita en route to Baghdad International Airport, where he has worked at the airport bank for the past 13 years...
...time, Chicago Law School Dean Saul Levmore told the Chicago Maroon, “I know—I don’t think, I know—that there are a couple of personal reasons for this decision...
...began pushing him toward the mall's exit. "I'm just an activist," a waitress heard Burgos shout. A mall security guard approached the group. As the guard would later testify, the men warned him that they were police officers. They hustled Burgos outside and into a maroon Toyota. As the car vanished into traffic, the guard wrote down the license plate...