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...could scrape enough paint chips off the cells to eat all at once and do himself in, but it only gave him an upset stomach. Then for a while it appeared that he was starting to improve--until the day he requested a razor in the shower, supposedly to shave his body hair. It seemed insane to me that a detainee who had twice tried to kill himself would be allowed to take a razor into the shower. But at this point, things not making sense at the camp was starting to become the norm...
Radcliffe had worked hard to shave several valuable seconds off of its time by the time of its second race. However, while the Black and White was able to narrow the Princeton lead, it never completely bridged the gap, slipping to third in the rankings in the varsity eight grand final after some dramatics in the race’s final stretch...
...life in Narayan's stories consists largely of people doing just what they and their ancestors have been doing for hundreds of years. They propitiate the gods as best they can. In Nitya, a couple remember a solemn vow to shave their two-year-old son's head and offer his hair as tribute if he recovers from whooping cough and convulsions. Unfortunately, the healthy young man is now 20 and in no mood to cooperate: "You had no business to pawn my scalp without consulting me." The hero of All Avoidable Talk is a clerk who learns from...
...Bethesda hospital on Saturday morning became a mini-White House, with a full complement of Secret Service and military guards and a hastily rigged press and TV briefing room. Donald Regan arrived at around 7 a.m., an hour before his boss woke up to shave. Nancy got there about 9, wearing an Adolfo dress in her favorite cheery red. National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane had slipped in a side door a bit earlier. He gave Reagan, clad in lime green pajamas, his regular morning intelligence briefing, and several aides dropped by to discuss the weekly legislative calendar...
...Mason insists. "Suicide means a needless taking of life. When five doctors tell you nothing can be done, you are merely insuring that your life ends at the proper time. I don't want my daughters to see me wither away to 80 lbs. and have some night nurse shave my beard to get some tubing into my mouth...