Word: rivering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saturday, the notorious Charles River winds plagued the entire field...
...isolated village. Nathan Price, an evangelical Baptist preacher, fanaticism in bitter parody, lugs his wife, daughters and rigid preconceptions to Kilanga, a small jungle settlement, where faith plays out as farce. To the hospitable but puzzled tribesmen, he rails against nakedness and multiple wives, and he insists on river baptisms though crocodiles lurk in the river. Fittingly, though he does not understand this, the Congolese word batiza means both baptism and, pronounced differently, terrify. Worse, "Tata Jesus is bangala," as Price mispronounces it, means not Father Jesus is precious but Father Jesus is a poisonwood tree...
...black Africa. Kingsolver, 43, lived in the Congo in the early '60s, and fondly remembers the people and the terrain. But this is a novel, not travel writing salted with guilt. The author's strong female characterizations carry a story that moves through its first half like a river in flood...
...live in the Quad and she lives by the River, you're going to end up with less time together, but that doesn't mean less quality time. You'll have to plan your schedules a little more and make time for her. But what you lose in spontaneity, you might gain in enjoying a break from the rest of your life. If you live in the same House, she will be the rest of your life, and there won't by any breaks...
This network of tunnels will merge and surface near the Fleet Center, crossing the Charles River in an elegant 14-lane, cable-stayed bridge. The bridge will be the widest in the world and, in addition, the first asymmetrical bridge ever built. In its design, Swiss architects tried to evoke the Bunker Hill Monument (though some might question choosing the ugliest monument in Boston to welcome people to the city...