Word: mats
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...flannel shirt sleepily rolled up a blue foam mat over the hull of his collapsed tent. It was just after 10 a.m. on a rainy Saturday, as small birds rushed between the cement pillars of Queen's Pier Hong Kong's harbor banged with its constant din of construction...
Perhaps the most unexpected discovery is evidence that Indians, whom the settlers assumed would be uniformly hostile, actually lived in the fort for some period of time. Trash pits, for example, yielded fragments of an Indian reed mat as well as shell beads favored by the Indians and the type of stone tool that they would have used to drill them. The Indian artifacts were found mixed in with English ones in an undisturbed layer of soil and in greater concentrations than have ever been found in Virginia Indian villages. That, and the fact that the Indians bothered to carry...
...brightest precisely when we need them most” thanks to a cap that “is arbitrarily set and bears no relation to U.S. industry’s demand for skilled professionals.”We agree. America would be foolish not to lay out the welcome mat for highly skilled workers...
...tied up in two loose knots on either side of her head, and a smile that explodes across her face, as if someone has switched on a spotlight. She's smart, too, likes social studies best, and especially learning about different cultures in far-off lands. Crouched on a mat in a refugee camp on Sri Lanka's east coast, flicking the pages of a schoolbook, pencil by her side, she looks like a normal kid. And then you spot it: Jeevatharsini has no left arm. Through the hole in her dress where her upper arm should join her shoulder...
...been very aggressive going out there and taking it to his opponent, leaving [him] pretty much optionless,” Meltzer said.“He’s at a point now that it feels like nobody is going to beat him once he steps on the mat,” he added.“Louis wrestled better than I’ve ever seen,” tri-captain Robbie Preston said. “He kept guys down and got crucial turns. He turned it up at the right time.”The second-seeded...