Word: sash
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...There were] women of all ages and sizes and colors wearing Chile’s presidential sash (you could buy them for two bucks from street vendors...
When the tsunami hit the eastern Sri Lankan town of Thirukkovil, just before 9 a.m. on Dec. 26 last year, Father Ranjeevan Xavier cut short morning Mass at St. Joseph's, told his congregation to head for higher ground, tucked his cassock into his sash and ran toward the sea a few hundred meters away. "Almost immediately I found the body of a woman lying on a fence," says Father Ranjeevan, 30. "Her long hair had tangled in the barbed wire and trapped her. We'd had floods before, but I'd never seen that. I picked up her body...
Blackburn, a 55-year-old mother of seven, was an active member of the Black Sash, a group of white women who campaign against apartheid. One of the government's most visible white opponents, she had been arrested several times for attending illegal gatherings with blacks and for entering black townships without permission. Blackburn was often the only white to attend mass funeral rallies for blacks who had died in the racial unrest of the past 16 months, and last week blacks paid tribute to her. "Africans in this country are walking tall on the road she has blazed," Black...
...male cadets ... It's an affectionate nickname, a mark of respect for her record, which brought her a cadet promotion. Like many of the women at West Point, she admits that she likes to cook and sew ... She buckles on a curved saber, wraps a purple sash around her waist. During the inspection a male cadet giggles, and jiggles his eyebrows up and down in amusement as she walks by. Because he's a classmate she says nothing. If he were a plebe she could say: 'Mister, do you know the proper position of attention?' 'Yes, ma'am.' 'Well...
...leave the room, turn off your computer at the end of the day. If you have control over the heating and cooling (as in the dorms), turn the heat down when you’re not there. If you work in a laboratory with fume hoods, close the sash when you are not at the hood. Nationally, the average chemical fume hood uses the energy of three and a half houses. Closing the sash can cut that energy waste by over 50 percent...