Word: marshes
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...AMARANTH More protein than most grains --WILD RICE A marsh grass, native to North America --MILLET Ancient grain used as birdseed...
Many undergraduates flaunted the parietal system, as did Tipper and Al, especially in its fateful last years. But signs of resistance are evident in earlier decades as well. In 1952, Robert Marsh, Ed.D. ’51 wrote to the Alumni Bulletin of Harvard Magazine to offer an argument against Harvard’s parietal rules: “If a man is old enough to be an officer in the armed forces and die in Korea, he is old enough to be left alone with a girl after dark,” he maintained. But administrators continued to cling...
...several men before him perished trying to do. He later became the first Westerner to twice cross Saudi Arabia's vast, uncharted Empty Quarter. The punishing expeditions were chronicled in his best-selling book Arabian Sands. Subsequent years spent living in southern Iraq led to his second acclaimed book, Marsh Arabs. Thesiger continued to risk his life exploring the Middle East, Africa and Asia until he was 70, when he retired to live in a house without running water or electricity in Maralal, Kenya. His credo was: "The harder the life, the finer the person." He was knighted...
...have more presence than the two small humans who scuttle across the canvas. Its wide angle and transformation of horror into almost-beauty conveys emotional impact in a way no photograph can. In 1921 Nash was diagnosed with "war strain" and retreated to the Kent coast, near bleak Romney Marsh. He took refuge in geometry, applying a ruler to nature, and seeking out the regularity of fences, planks, horizons. The Shore (1923) shows the seawall at Dymchurch, which holds the water - in his imagination "cold and cruel" - back from the marsh. A stark composition of gray, blue, gold and terracotta...
...coalition forces since the end of the war--probably had nothing to do with Saddam Hussein, his family, his supporters, former members of his army or militias, foreign terrorists or anyone else who might be included in that overused phrase "bad guys." Majar is in the homeland of the marsh Arabs, Shi'ite Muslims who, after years of oppression, hate Saddam passionately. That doesn't make them any less dangerous--especially since Iraq is one of the most heavily armed nations on Earth--when crossed. The British died, al-Ebadi thinks, in compliance with old local customs. British troops killed...