Word: towards
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...said, "I'll lift you." He did that with no strain at all, and he stood in reach of Judas' arms till the last breath failed, but Judas never once reached toward...
...when the man finished, he raised both hands toward Judas and said, "Jude, go to your father now; he'll need you for the planting. The others won't harm you; I'll warn them off." The man's upright hands were pierced with deep wounds, just below the palms...
...George Ryan in October--descended on Havana soon after, scoping the possibilities of selling everything from long-grain rice to fiber-optic cable. "[The Cubans] need everything in the world--technology, farms, hospitals," says Ryan. "Illinois would be in a prime position to help them." In a key step toward that goal, Missouri's Republican Senator John Ashcroft, prodded by U.S. farmers desperate for new global markets, introduced a bill this fall to eliminate the stringent licensing rules on sales of food and medicine to Cuba...
Such is the message Bove hopes to spread to America this week. He claims a sense of kinship with his Yankee counterparts, noting that a group of American farmers contributed $5,000 toward paying his bail after the McDonald's incident. "There are more similarities than differences between us," he says. "We are fighting for the same things." Question for Seattle: Is this town big enough for Bill Gates, Boeing--and Jose Bove...
...itself on being the recreational-vehicle capital of the world. It's not a place that sees a lot of drive-by shootings. So the city was surprised and saddened on Nov. 17, when Sasezley Richardson, 19, was shot in the head as he strolled through a quiet neighborhood toward his girlfriend's house. He was left bleeding on the side of the road--beside a bundle of diapers he had been carrying for his girlfriend's baby. He died three days later...