Word: shepherding
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...With Friday fading and the light softening, it felt like we were speeding through Old Testament lands: shepherd boys guided flocks of goats over rocky slopes looking for feed; donkeys shuffled along paths with firewood roped to their backs; fields were worked with wooden implements; cloaked figures strode alone across vacant desert stretches miles from anywhere. All that broke the scene was a B-52 trail piercing the clouds far above...
...staff: nobody has been paid in six months. Among the eight patients in one of the trauma wards are an 18-year-old whose face was crushed when a U.S. bomb destroyed his house, a 10-year-old boy shot by a stray bullet and an angry shepherd named Khan. He says that when he was tending his sheep last week, 25 armed men working for another of the city's commanders, regional security chief Hazrat Ali, drove up and began stealing the animals. He tried to stop them, and they shot him twice in the chest. "This kind...
...Every time we see something devastating, it brings back the sleepless nights, the nightmares, the whole dang ball of wax," says Paul Howell, who lost his 28-year-old daughter Karan Shepherd in the bombing. Howell, like Doris Jones, 53, knew immediately after the recent attacks that he would go to New York City to help. Both of them made the trip, sponsored by the Red Cross. Three times a day, they escorted grieving family members on tours of ground zero...
...soon find a pale, ghostly young girl who you must shepherd to freedom. Together you search out the escape route while inky minions of a dark queen try to steal the girl away from you. But mostly it's about architecture. Cavernous rooms and wide spaces must be crossed by circuitous routes which reward exploration. To get to the door you must climb the chain to throw the switch to lower the bridge to reach the box you can climb on. Among other things, it's an extremely relaxing game since you can take your time to poke around...
...escort, who had taken us through multiple security checks had either turned against us or disappeared. He was replaced by a new fellow who yelled at our former escort and then at us. A daisy chain of authority followed: a new man would arrive, yell at the previous shepherd, reposition us, and then be replaced by a another who believed whatever new location we'd been put in, was the wrong...