Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Father Pedro manages the school with 14 Ave Maria alumni. Each hedged-in classroom plot has a shed to guard against sudden showers, but the only closed building on the campus is a chapel decorated by gypsy painters. Geography is taught on large relief maps that have fresh water coursing through their lakes and rivers. Students cross the Straits of Gibraltar in a stride, hop the Mediterranean, stand on capital and continent while they sing their lessons. As they learn arithmetic, they themselves represent numbers, move about like chessmen singing easy, arithmetic rhymes. In other classes, they act out Spain...
...action, the Senate has shown itself unwilling to cooperate with democracy. In these trying times, when blood is being shed for liberty, there is no room in high places for men who value their private "rights" above their patriotism...
...port altogether. The 6,535-ton American Export freighter Extavia smashed into its Brooklyn pier, leaving a 100-foot section of jagged wreckage. Then the Cunard Lines' green-hulled Caronia knifed through 30 feet of ten-inch concrete and rammed right up to Pier 90's shed before it could be stopped and worked into its slip (estimated damage to the two piers...
...like in Red China?" Liu Shaw-tong replied: "Would you understand me, dear friend, if I told you that I saw an old woman weep because the sun had died in China?" The dead sun - Author Liu scarcely needs to say - is the one that once shed the light of freedom and humanity in China...
...long putt, she is apt to fall to her knees and praise Allah; when she misses a short one, she may exclaim, "I feel like nuts & bolts rattling together." On a hot day, she once gathered a circle of women around her on the golf course while she shed her petticoat; another time she startled the gallery with a highland fling. She once insisted on being paid her tournament money in one-dollar bills ("It makes me feel richer"). She operates like a woman whose life is a constant campaign to astound people...