Word: shepherded
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...sound the Afghan herder recalls hearing as he walked alone through a pine forest last month. When he looked up, he saw an American commando, his legs and shoulder bloodied. The commando pointed his gun at the Afghan. "Maybe he thought I was a Taliban," says the shepherd, Gulab. "I remembered hearing that if an American sticks up his thumb, it is a friendly gesture. So that's what I did." To make sure the message was clear, Gulab lifted his tunic to show the American he wasn't hiding a weapon. He then propped up the wounded commando...
...studio executive, we oversee and shepherd the process from start to finish. In general, the movie-making process starts with finding and developing ideas. We meet with writers and producers to hear pitches, read scripts that have been written on spec, or come up with ideas of our own and hire writers to work on them. During the development process, we meet frequently with the writers to brainstorm ideas and give notes on drafts. Sometimes we might need to find and bring additional writers onto a project. Once the script gets green light, we’ll find a director...
...funeral reading is generally the Twenty-Third Psalm: "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want." It is hi all regards routine ceremony. --By Richard Conniff
...decision to step down will present the department with its largest test to date—whether, for all its troubles, it will be able to stand alone, without the stewardship of the man who has been its shepherd for the past 15 years...
...Syracuse), he won an Oscar nomination as the jaunty photographer and pal to reporter Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday. But he could seethe too, winning acclaim as a psychopathic infantry officer in the 1956 World War II drama Attack and another Oscar nomination as the forbidding father of Cybill Shepherd's Wasp princess in The Heartbreak...