Word: secrete
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...gobble it up until our stomachs were swollen as though we were five months pregnant. Then we would put our fingers down our throats and make ourselves throw it all up. We assumed that we were the first people since the Romans to do this; it was our secret, and it created a titillating bond between...
...next decade, John Paul, in secret contact with Polish leader Wojciech Jaruzelski and Soviet and U.S. leaders, adroitly balanced his role as the union's champion with his resolve that no Polish blood be spilled. When Jaruzelski, fearing a Soviet invasion, declared martial law in 1981, the Pope mystified the West by disagreeing with U.S. sanctions. But his forbearance allowed him to attain a position of near partnership with the communist regime. Poland rolled back martial law in 1983 and--with the acquiescence of Mikhail Gorbachev--communism itself in April 1989. The largely peaceful transition seems to have influenced Gorbachev...
...Paul, by sheer longevity, has assured that the church will deviate little immediately from his doctrinal course. He would have understood this as part of God's design. In his memoir Gift and Mystery, he makes a telling observation regarding the period in the 1940s when he attended a secret and illegal school for priests. "I could have been arrested any day and taken away to a concentration camp," he wrote later. "Sometimes I would ask myself: so many young people of my own age are losing their lives, why not me? Today I know that it was not mere...
...Pope they have ever known, or mourned. Thus the prayers came not just from the Catholic faithful but also from Muslims in France and Jews at Jerusalem's Western Wall and from believers across Eastern Europe who before his crusade against tyranny would have had to mourn him in secret. Even those who disagreed with his goals were touched by his goodness and came out to honor the man who made history itself kneel down...
...sequence of Glenn and his girlfriend riding bikes through the early morning streets, dragging their feet in the leaves of the gutter. Turning impressionistic, their bodies, bicycles and the swirling leaves become blurs of unified motion, eliciting the pleasures of movement and the sense of becoming lost in a secret world. By the end of "NST '04" it becomes clear that the zombies were never the point. Instead, using comix' unique tools of visual queues, it reads as a complex portrait of a budding relationship, particularly those private moments that bond people together...