Word: pining
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with friendly audiences. The displaced persons he met at the Bethany World Church were well cared for and for the most part grateful for their surroundings. In Poplarville, Mississippi, Bush toured a middle class neighborhood where the damage seemed minimal. Homes were intact, although many pine trees were felled. But most seemed to have hit lawns and carports rather than causing real structural damage to homes. Bush joked with Alabama Power workers who were helping to restore power to the comfortable neighborhood, which led Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour to inform the crew that he had "married an Alabama girl...
...city started to move last year on earlier filings for groundwater rights in Clark, Lincoln and White Pine counties, setting off a water war that could be repeated across the parched but popular Southwest. Let the Las Vegans have their way, other Nevadans warn, and you could upset a complex web of aquifers that run as far away as California's Death Valley and western Utah, where Snake Valley partly lies. That could do irreversible damage to plant, wildlife and human populations all sipping from the same limited supply. For every desert population center, there is a similarly limited supply...
...spend enough money to monitor the bears, that efforts to make hunters clean up after themselves won't work and that the trigger mechanisms for relisting the grizzly are inadequate--they don't, for example, kick in when the bears' favorite food supply, the seeds of the whitebark pine, succumbs to disease or insects. "[The FWS does] do reviews," she says. "There's nothing that says they have to do anything to respond...
...spinners (fagogo is the Samoan word for their rich and digressive oral tradition). Setting out from San Francisco in 1888 with wife Fanny, 11 years his senior, Stevenson sought both material for his writing and warm weather for his ailing lungs. After stops along the way, Stevenson began to pine for "an island with a profile," and found it in the natural peaks and waterfalls of Samoa. Regular steamer connections with Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. meant the bestselling author could keep up serial publication of his writings. As well as novels and short stories, there were travel pieces...
...crackle in the brush. That's the sound the Afghan herder recalls hearing as he walked alone through a pine forest last month. When he looked up, he saw an American commando, his legs and shoulder bloodied. The commando pointed his gun at the Afghan. "Maybe he thought I was a Taliban," says the shepherd, Gulab. "I remembered hearing that if an American sticks up his thumb, it is a friendly gesture. So that's what I did." To make sure the message was clear, Gulab lifted his tunic to show the American he wasn't hiding a weapon...