Word: sprayings
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...unique cultural traditions that tend to exacerbate the problem. "Do not deface the Naira. Do not write on it," one reads. "Arrange your money neatly in straight pockets, wallets or pouches. Our Naira is who we are, and an icon of our neighborhood. Do not squeeze, stain, tear, spray or write on the Naira...
...trees, and of his imagination, in a grisly English town in 1982. "Listening's reading," he notes elsewhere, "if you close your eyes." The sounds and tastes, the trembling feelings of his world course through the wide-awake boy like channeled spirits. Yet what makes the pungent spray of syllables heart-rending is the fact that Jason is a stammerer and has to avoid certain letters even when reading aloud in class...
Even her coffin captured this mixture of the traditional and the personal. It was draped with the royal standard; on top of that rested a spray of white lilies, Diana's favorite flower. And there was something else: a bouquet of white tulips from Prince William and a wreath of white roses with a card bearing the handwritten word Mummy from Prince Harry...
...teenagers. When taking her son to see an ear, nose and throat specialist for recurrent ear infections, she innocently asked the doctor why she could hear her heart beating when she went to bed. He thought she might have some sinus problems and prescribed some antibiotics and a nasal spray. When she had no relief from her heart's nightly lullaby, she returned to the doctor who ordered a CT scan to further evaluate her sinuses. The CT scan revealed that her sinuses were fine, but she had a brain aneurysm located behind her ear. When she consulted a neurosurgeon...
...Datar said she saw a stuffed Minnie Mouse doll lying alone on a step. On the house had been spray-painted the letters “DOA”: Dead On Arrival...