Word: shawls
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...soldiers seized her wrists and pinned her to the floor. First one man; then the other. Maka shut her eyes and tried to cry out, but her assailants wadded her tobe, the long, colorful shawl worn by Sudanese women, and stuffed it down her throat, choking her. "You are the wife of a rebel," they taunted, and beat her. When it was done they spat and called her a sodomite...
...Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Fashion tip: If you arrive at the monasteries in revealing clothing, you may be asked to throw on a shawl or robe. Only six of the 24 monasteries are still occupied by monks; the rest are abandoned. From the top of Meteora, you can enjoy miraculous views of the geological marvels that served as a location for the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only...
Neill holds up a gold shawl top: “I have this too!” “That was like a random Filene’s Basement find,” Thebaud says. “Me too!” Neill laughs. “Yeah, you don’t need my help...
...Whitman of the shtetl. But all his life he also adapted Christian imagery to his own purposes. (Remember those flying lovers?) He returned again and again to the Crucifixion but in versions in which Christ is plainly an executed Jew, his loins wrapped in a blue-striped Jewish prayer shawl. By the late 1930s, in paintings like White Crucifixion, Chagall used Golgotha as a sign for the escalating pain of European Jews...
...dawn, a woman in a black shawl with six little ones in tow sheepishly approached a small American outpost. She held out a ration form. It was her day to come to pick up rice and flour to feed her family. Controlling the distribution of food staples had been one of the ways the Baath Party had kept the population in check. With the party gone, she didn't know where to turn...