Word: orchardes
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...CHERRY ORCHARD...
...House as heir to the throne of Thailand, and most foreign diplomats, including Israeli Ambassador Rehavam Amir, were among those attending the ceremony. In short, the city's embassies were quiet and relaxed. All, that is, except the Israeli Embassy on Soi Lang Suan ("The Lane Behind the Orchard"). In the hot tropical sun of high noon, two men in leather jackets climbed over the wall enclosing the compound, while two others, well-dressed in dark suits, strolled in through the front gate. Before the guard could raise any alarm, he was staring down the muzzles of submachine guns...
...converting it to yes. "Language is a barrier," she says. "Words do not mean the same to men as to women." So she held a class for the men on the Platform Committee, who had probably not received such a lecture since they were caught filching apples from the orchard down the road. "I sure did learn a lot," sighed New Jersey Congressman Peter Frelinghuysen...
AFTER SEEING a production of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, George Bernard Shaw said, "I feel as if I want to tear up all my plays and begin all over again." Soon afterwards he began writing Heartbreak House. Although he subtitled the remarkable work "A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on an English Theme," the played turned out to be a quintessentially Shavian treatment of "cultured, leisured" British society before World...
...sultry weekend, David Barr, 24, of Joliet, Ill., headed for Crab Orchard Lake in the southern part of the state. In his impatience to escape the heat, Barr dived right in without first testing the depth of the water, plummeted to the bottom and broke his neck...