Word: rolled
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...spindly limbs and lay him down beneath a shade tree on the far side of the courtyard. The boy is suffering from severe dehydration, and the nurse hastily inserts an intravenous tube, hooking the bottle to a branch. It is too late. As the boy's eyes roll back beneath fluttering eyelids, an older woman gently presses them shut. The boy came from the village of Malwuen, 34 miles away, where both parents and eight of his brothers and sisters succumbed to starvation in the past six months. Four days ago, he set out for Bardera with his last sibling...
Privilege begins with a lucky roll of the genes. Candice's father was the ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, a dapper vaudevillian in top hat and tux, who with his monocled dummy, Charlie McCarthy, made every radio appearance seem like a Broadway opening night. Her mother is Frances Westerman, a fashion model renowned in her youth as "the Ipana Girl." Edgar and Frances made quite a pair: handsome, smart, moneyed, decent. And they made quite a daughter, one at ease with her favors, slow to complain about being too lovely or too little loved. If aloof Edgar at times seemed closer...
...American musical. Guys and Dolls, for all its snazz and lilt, is a faithful revival of Loesser's 1950 hit. Crazy for You is a jolly update of Gershwin's 1930 Girl Crazy. Jelly's Last Jam is a spiked showcase for the rags and blues of Jelly Roll Morton, who flourished in Gershwin's day. Tourists go to these "new" shows with the same nostalgic avidity they bring to a "new" Matisse exhibition at the Museum of Modern...
This may be cold comfort, but when it comes to having children, nobody knows what is in store. For biological parents, kids are a roll of the DNA dice. Adoptive parents face greater risks, for their children carry a knapsack of genetic and cultural imponderables. Yet there are couples who heroically try to create a home, a family, a rich life for orphans from the U.S. and, increasingly, the Third World...
...Thesaurus" is a mouthful; it does not roll trippingly on the tongue. Nor do its plural forms, the highfalutin thesauri, or thesauruses, which sounds like a prehistoric creature. Thesaurus means treasury or storehouse, but nobody calls Nicholas Brady Secretary of the Thesaurus or says, "Dear, pack up your winter underwear and lock it in the thesaurus...