Word: sea
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...bony as a bird," a gaunt, nervous man with an uncontrollable stutter. Having flunked one of his first-year classes, Keefer is marked out by the teachers as a failure and tortured more than anyone else. His only solace is Johan, a partially tame shark he keeps in a sea-pen not far from his cabin. Schulman attempts to use Jonah as a sort a of underpinning for this section of the novel, bringing Jane, Keefer and Jonah together again and again as a sort of touchpoint by which we can measure Jane's change. As Jane slowly decides...
...typed ucvote at the fas prompt. I read your high school resumes. I tried to find merit in your campaign platforms of better fro-yo and graduated meal plans. And I did my best to ignore the sea of people around me talking about what an ineffective body the council was. You started out tabula rasa in my mind, but you tarnished your image. And you did it fast...
Even though a pay raise for enlisted men and women is pending before Congress, the thought of shipping out to work for Uncle Sam apparently makes the young crowd feel a little seasick these days. The Navy has as many as 22,000 unfilled jobs, including 18,000 at sea. We asked a few top-gun advertising agencies to throw the admirals a line. (From top to bottom: Goldberg Moser O'Neill; McCann-Erickson Worldwide; Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners; Partners & Simons; and WongDoody, which actually came up with...
...took a trip to the Dead Sea by myself, during the week, and just sat at the Dead Sea and tried to get the Muses to talk to me again. I tried writing a little bit, but I didn't find it too successful. Finally, one of the rabbis approached me and said he was working on a book. It was a book about a medieval Talmudic commentary from France, and he asked me whether I wanted to be his editor, so I told him that I would and we worked together for many months. But in the second half...
...Jerusalem to Amman was even shorter, as the high winds swept away the clouds. In the chilly sunlight, the heights of the mountains where Amman is nestled could be seen clearly over the plain of the West Bank, and just to the south, the salty waters of the Dead Sea reflected the light of the mild winter day. And that morning, the Hashemite king had returned...