Word: scrawl
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Just before the show began, relief flowed with the sink water in the women’s bathroom. Thank God, said one senior, they didn’t scrawl V’s on our foreheads for being new to Rocky...
...Harare township of Warren Park, for the first time that anyone can remember, political graffiti has begun to appear on clapperboard walls and the backs of tin sheds. Alongside election posters for Robert Mugabe, unseen hands scrawl messages to the President. "Chinja Maitiro" reads one: "Change Your Way." Another declares: "Zuakwana," meaning "Enough." Nearby, a picture of the 84-year-old Zimbabwean leader has been defaced with blood-red tears and underneath is written the word: "Cheat." These are ominous signs for the despot who has ruled Zimbabwe for 28 years. But there are other, more urgent ones emerging elsewhere...
...tomb was found by construction workers digging the foundations for an apartment building in the Talpiot hills, a modern suburb of Jerusalem. Gat and two other archeologists excavated the tomb, which had been vandalized centuries earlier. The ossuaries, including one with the scrawl "Jesus, son of Joseph" were moved into an antiquities warehouse where they languished, forgotten, until a BBC film crew in 1996 dusted them off. Jacobovici took the story further, using statistics - later disputed by experts - which seemed to indicate that, although Jesus and the others were all common Jewish names during the days of the Second Temple...
...need the support of Republicans." Whether or not he gets the political backing he needs now, at least he can count on future generations of public support. Behind him, a mother pushed her infant in a stroller. Perched on the front was a sign written in a child's scrawl: "My mommy just paid her federal taxes - but she still has no vote. That is not fair...
Alvelda's office resembles that of a physics prof: shelves stacked with books, galaxy screen saver on the desktop--even the whiteboard scrawl. Alvelda's excitable demeanor and wool sweater also serve the scene, as does his stellar résumé, which lists degrees from M.I.T. and jobs with NASA and the Defense Department. But signs of accomplishment--the Emmy on his desk, framed patents and a photo with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger--bespeak a former government technologist who isn't afraid to show off a little...