Word: shirtful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wear it out one night, but I tucked it in my shirt. But then after that I just put it in my pocket. People around here too ask me, “Why don’t you wear it? I’d have a big shirt with big arrows saying, ‘Hey look at this!’’’ But then you kind of just get known as the girl that wears the medal around...
Yesterday’s indecent assault—the third this school year—took place at 3 p.m. when a Hispanic man, 18 to 20 years old and wearing a blue-and-white striped shirt, approached the victim on bicycle...
...side of the field. Hoff faked his defender by stopping the ball and making a move to his right. Just inside the box, Hoff let a shot fly, sending the ball so that it curved just over the right corner of the goal, prompting him to lift up his shirt and bite the end of it in frustration...
...more Marines pull a semi-conscious older man - not the boy's father - from one of the cars. His shirt soaked with blood, he's been shot in the jaw, the lower left side of his face torn apart. Lance Corporal Nathaniel Bitsui, having just tended to the boy's leg, now presses bandages against the wound and tries to get an IV into his arm as squad leaders call for an ambulance. Emitting raspy moans, the man stares beseechingly at Bitsui, who cannot get the needle into the man's collapsing veins. A Marine ambulance arrives shortly and takes...
...unison: "We welcome our headmistress." Jane Kansiime, who runs the Kamwokya primary school in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, silently reviews the students, who stand politely at attention, five to a bench. Most wear the navy-and-turquoise school uniform, but other colors speckle the crowded classroom: a yellow shirt, a red dress, a white blouse. "We are not rigid here, as long as a child can come," says Kansiime, 40. "It's not the clothes that make the child learn." Six years ago, before Uganda became the first country to have its debt burden eased under a World Bank?administered...