Word: twig
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strikes me as odd that this group has been silent about the terrible sin of twig-picking, for which the Bible mandates exactly the same punishment as that for homosexuality. Never have I heard a word from them about this great affront...
...seven and eight." Hampton's shock reverberated around the U.S. as Chicago police charged two preteen boys with the August murder in the city's grim Englewood district, declaring the pair had confessed to killing Ryan for her brand-new bicycle and molesting her body with a tree twig. But Hampton was still puzzled. Police at the scene when Ryan's body was discovered had told Hampton that "a lot of semen and stuff" had been found on her granddaughter's body. Rarely do boys the age of the suspects produce semen. Still, police detectives were adamant the boys knew...
...mouth. They also began rubbing branches and leaves around her nose and mouth. Police found pieces of leaves stuffed in Ryan's nostrils. Nathaniel testified that a half-inch gash around Ryan's genitals was believed to have been caused by a "small tubular object," later identified as a twig. According to Nathaniel's testimony, the boys admitted stashing Ryan's bicycle in a weeded lot and returning later that night to discover that it had disappeared. It has never been recovered...
...peel off life's accessories and come in nakedness before the Lord, asking 'What do I do with my life?'" says Father Tom Gedeon of Notre Dame's Retreat International association, explaining the appeal of retreats. But isn't this just the latest fad of the Me generation? Twig Branch, 42, a Presbyterian insurance agent based in Charlotte, N.C., who first attended the Abbey of the Genesee last November, disagrees. "First of all," he says, "unlike est, they let you go to the bathroom. This has an authenticity to it. It was not manufactured 15 weeks ago for your consumption...
Huddled in a plexiglas incubator, 3 1/2-lb. Andreah Moran is, at nine days, so fragile that she looks as if her twig-thin arms and legs would snap from one false move. But gingerly navigating the tangle of blue electrodes attached to the infant's chest, John Dieter, a researcher at the University of Miami's Touch Research Institute, firmly massages those arms and legs and rubs Andreah's back and her tiny head. The baby sighs, parts her withered lips and begins a slow drool...