Word: riverbank
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They played croquet and Risk. They competed in caterpillar races on the John D. Merrill '89 memorial on the riverbank across form the finish line. In these days of electronic wizardry, they even got to watch themselves on videotape. They also watched movies and eventually got around to filming interviews with one another...
...next bridge, heard the roar and assumed that the attack had succeeded. He was caught unprepared when the procession drove right past him to the town hall, with the archduke alive and well. Princip wandered off to a coffeehouse to console himself, then drifted back to the riverbank...
Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri, 54, launched the new era by ceremoniously pouring a can of beer into the Nile. Five million dollars' worth of liquor followed, as thousands watched from the riverbank, chanting, "Wise decision, Gaafar." Thus did Sudan pass under Islamic law this fall. At a stroke, alcohol was banned, and the harsh strictures of the Sharia eliminated the last vestiges of Western-style criminal justice. Thenceforth Muslim adulterers would be stoned, murderers beheaded and boozers flogged (40 lashes for Muslims, 30 for disorderly non-Muslims). The most graphic evidence of the change to date came two weeks...
...Incoming Faculty Dean Watt visits once again, this time specifically to see the Adams House Z K-School fellow Burford picks the same weekend to move to Cambridge for the year, and happens to drive past the festivities on the riverbank. "And I thought I had a cleanup problem," the former federal administrator is heard to mutter...
...scene could be straight from a 19th century novel by Leo Tolstoy. Horse-drawn carts carry cabbages along muddy, unpaved roads. Walking along the riverbank in the low sun, an elderly woman wearing a mobcap carries a yoke on her shoulders, with buckets of water hanging on each end. She is returning to her home, a wooden cabin with no running water, in a village not far from Pomary, an obscure rail siding on the banks of the Volga River, 400 miles east of Moscow. Along the way, she encounters brightly colored blue-and-yellow bulldozers and pipelaying machines...