Word: rectangularity
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...begin that process at regularly scheduled discussions. Usually just after 3 p.m. on Wednesdays or at 9:30 a.m. on Fridays, they enter a spacious, oak- paneled conference room, located behind the courtroom. Following a century- old custom, they shake hands with one another and then settle around the rectangular conference table, with the Chief at one end and the senior Associate Justice, currently William Brennan, at the other. The most junior, now Antonin Scalia, sits to Brennan's right and answers any knocks on the door or hands out any messages necessary. No law clerk or other person...
Many of these basij will end up at Beheshteh Zahra, the sprawling martyrs' cemetery south of Tehran, where red water symbolizing martyrs' blood flows from a fountain. Every day bulldozers work at the cemetery, carving out new rectangular plots the size of Olympic swimming pools for those slain in battle. Gravediggers say they fill one with bodies in two weeks. The dead arrive so rapidly that pieces of cardboard, usually stapled with photographs of the fallen, mark burial sites until marble slabs can be put in place. Wives and mothers in chadors, the flowing black robes, move silently through...
...back up Rush later on slide guitar and improvise a number with the gifted white Bluesman John Hammond. This season's featured guest was the formidable black Rhythm-and-Blues Pioneer Bo Diddley, whose major weapon is a five-speed turbo electric guitar built in a startling rectangular shape...
...toilet. At one end was a small window that let in narrow strips of light. "It had metal jalousies to keep out the sun and block the view to the prison yard," Begun said. At the other end was an iron door fitted with multiple locks and a closed rectangular slot called a kormushka, or feeding door...
There was plenty of time, Bush observed, to define himself better. Sometime this year he would make clear where he thought the country needed to head. Bush stopped for a moment and gazed across the long rectangular office. "It's going to hurt me some down the road," he said. No matter what the pressure, the Vice President declared, he would not identify any issues on which he differed with Reagan. "I'm not going to separate myself from the President," Bush said...