Word: rosebushes
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...sound grew louder. The pitiful whisper of soil as it flew, displaced, grated her soul. The hoarse pants of a laboring man pained Roxanna’s gentle nature. But onward she ran, as if with winged feet. There, crouched in the patch wherein her precious petunias and beloved rosebush grew, covered in soil that had become dirtied by his touch, was the new gardener who had just been clasping Frederick’s supine form so possessively moments before. He did not notice her presence at first, and she watched in horror as he cast aside the spade...
...friend? Novels are a place where we exfoliate our souls with the rough edges of life, not pamper ourselves with fantasies that don't seem to know they're fantasies or confuse ourselves with imitation insights ("That's the thing about L.A.--you can freeze to death under a rosebush") and limp stand-up gotchas ("Driving a Bentley to Target--only in L.A. does this make perfect sense"). This Book Will Save Your Life won't save your life--unless your life is dangerously unexciting and you suffer from a chronic treacle deficiency. But this review might save...
...June 3, 1989, Ding Zilin and her associates considered themselves ordinary mothers. But that was the night the Chinese government ordered its military to fire on civilians in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Ding's 17-year-old son, Jiang Jielian, was shot and killed while crouching behind a rosebush. After that night, motherhood and massacre became inseparable for Ding and others like her. They banded together and called themselves Tiananmen Mothers...
...disputes the claim and even the State Department's own intelligence wing says the evidence is not definitive. Those aluminum tubes supposedly showing a uranium-enrichment centrifuge program? The International Atomic Energy Agency investigated and pooh-poohed the claim - the centrifuge parts revealed as having been buried under the rosebush of a Baghdad scientist since 1991 certainly show that Saddam had a decade earlier squirreled away components to allow him to restart a program at some point in the future, but also, perhaps, that this had not been done by the time of the invasion. The IAEA inspectors had concluded...