Word: sectionalism
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...shared fan base. But there's no escaping the fact that their day jobs were never this straight-up. Like a well-deserved summer break, the album sees them do what they do best, showcasing screeching vocals and guitar against the unobtrusive, workmanlike backing of a rhythm section of keyboards, bass and drums. Almost all experimental fat is trimmed...
...been visited by some 16 million people, for it had become, by a terrible stroke of violence, the eternal resting place of the slain Kennedy. As more time passed and more visitors climbed the tree-shaded hill to the site, more graves were added in what is known as Section 45 of the rolling Arlington acreage - including graves for Robert Kennedy and, later, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. (See TIME's complete Ted Kennedy coverage...
...Solemn indeed to hear Taps played in darkness broken by a dancing eternal flame. But this was Arlington, where some two dozen burials take place each day. Solemnity hangs over those hills like the atmosphere. Some of those many funerals are for white-haired old warriors, but not in Section 60, where the honored dead of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are marked in spreading ranks of white headstones...
Kennedy also relied on his faith as he watched his two eldest children struggle with cancer. While his daughter Kara was undergoing treatment at a nearby hospital in the Mission Hill section of Boston, Kennedy used to stop for prayer at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica, the church where his funeral will take place on Saturday, Aug. 29. The amount of time her youngest child spent in churches would have surprised and gratified Rose Kennedy. In 1995, Teddy spoke of her legacy, "She sustained us in the saddest times by her faith in God, which was the greatest gift...
Formal: 1. What you called a prom in high school. 2. House dances you’ll be attending in the spring (or the fall, if you get asked by that cute sophomore in section!) 3. Also known collectively as “The Balls...