Word: shepherded
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...pure becomes a deadly weapon in the hands of avarice and greed." When Errand Wolf gets the book, he goes into the ghetto of the town to find "The Sloth," the only creature mean enough to kill Wilson. The story then moves to the outskirts of town where a shepherd tells the final chapter of the story. After killing Wilson, the knowledge offered by the book, as Icculus had warned, is corrupted, so the rebel leader Errand Wolf simply becomes the next king Wilson...
...widow Francine refused all entreaties to publish the unrevised fragment, but his daughter Catherine, now 48, who inherited her father's estate after her mother's death in 1979, decided that the manuscript would be made public eventually and that she might as well be the one to shepherd it into print. She spent three years deciphering her father's crabbed, difficult handwriting. Le Premier Homme was published in France in mid-April -- and immediately became a sensation...
...group formed to find the child was delayed when its leader, another regent, died in the crash of his new BMW in East Bengal. But in 1992 emissaries to the Tibetan district of Lhathok located an apple-cheeked, appropriately aged boy named Ugen Thinley, son of a shepherd named Dondup and his wife Lolaga. Local lamas reported that at his birth rainbows had appeared and conch shells sounded, and a bird alighted on his father's tent and "sang a beautiful song." The joyous news was faxed to the Dalai Lama, who affirmed the choice with his own prophetic dreams...
...Mitchell is Clinton's favorite in the true sense of the word," said an Administration official, who added, "but there are extenuating circumstances." The most serious of those circumstances is that Clinton needs Mitchell to shepherd his health-care plan through the Senate. The White House is adamant that he continue as a deal-making party leader until health reform is passed, even if that means delaying confirmation hearings until after the first Monday in October. Another problem is whether Mitchell, who voted in 1990 to raise the pay of Supreme Court Associate Justices from...
...well- traveled Iranian businessman with high-level government connections, Shoorideh prevailed upon a visiting Swiss businessman to help two friends get visas by having his company invite them as guests. One of the "friends" was Nasser Ghasmi Nejad, whose real purpose was apparently to rendezvous with Azadi and shepherd him back to Tehran. Shoorideh and Nejad thus joined the list of six alleged co-conspirators, including Azadi, Boyerahmadi, Sheikhattar and Edipsoy, who are to be tried in absentia at the same time as Vakili, Hendi and Sarhadi...