Word: shelteredness
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Opening the story proper, our historian sets the scene in Amsterdam, 1972. Sheltered, studious, and alienated from the “tough-talking, chain-smoking sophisticates” in the brat cohort of diplomats’ children, the protagonist spends long hours with the 19th century tomes in her father?...
This White House is certainly not the first Administration to milk religious groups for votes and then boot them unceremoniously back out to pasture. In his days as a notorious "hatchet man" for President Richard M. Nixon, before he had allowed Jesus to transform his life, Chuck Colson used to...
Moss's book-the third volume in an autobiographical trilogy that began with Bye Bye Blackbird and Distant Archipelagos-is more than just a civil servant's confessional, however. The story begins with his arrival in Hong Kong in 1965 as a senior information officer in Government Information Services (the...
DIED. Alfredo Stroessner, 93, canny and cruel dictator of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989 who brought relative stability and economic growth to the South American country-which had seen six Presidents toppled from 1948 to 1954-before being ousted in a 1989 coup and exiled; in Brasília. The...
The issues with Prudhoe's pipes are not new: a leak in March prompted the US Department of Transportation to order BP to improve its corrosion inspections. Nonetheless, Alaska's oilfields - far from war in the Middle East and hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico - seemed slightly sheltered from turmoil...