Word: wisps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thin twigs was handed to Shastri's eldest son, 32-year-old Hari Krishnan. According to custom, he walked three times around his father's body, then put the flame to the pyre. Priests poured on ghee and incense. Within seconds, the flames erupted, illuminating the wisp of white under the logs. Soon all was ashes...
Author Mackay's hero is a 23-year-old dwarf whose chief problem, as someone remarks, is that "it's only his mind that's warped, he's got a lovely little body." After a series of disjointed misadventures, he ends up drowned, a wisp of seaweed hanging from his sad little foot. What sets Author Mackay apart from her despairing friends, however, is that there is a giggle buried deep in the center of her sadness, and it bubbles up at odd moments-such as the moment when a husband grows so incensed...
...Radcliffe cheerleader. Now that mays sound strange, because the two are obviously mutually exclusive. A Radcliffe girl spends all her time studying, occasionally stopping to push a wisp of long dirty hair out of her eyes or to pull another book from her handy green bookbag. But she doesn't run around in a short red pleated skirt in the freezing cold for three and a half hours, waving pompoms, shaking her hips, and wheeling carts.(carting wheels...
Auctioning off the documentary remains of her son-baptismal certificate, a few letters-brought in $7,165. Mrs. Marguerite Oswald, 58, then announced that she would use the money to fly to Russia to pursue the will-o'-the-wisp of the innocence of her son, Lee Harvey. "The Russians haven't turned over everything to the U.S." about her son's stay in the Soviet Union, she said. "I thought that, being his mother, I might build up enough evidence to ask that this case be reopened." By some morbid twist, one Oswald letter from Russia...
...coordinated attack earlier this month, Canberra bombers swept in to blast a guerrilla stronghold near Pucuta, a tiny village 90 miles from Huan cayo. Ground forces overran the en campment, killing 20 guerrillas, but an other 40 managed to escape. A few days later, another will-o-the-wisp band of guerrillas attacked the village of Satipo, only 70 miles away, killing two policemen and a civilian before fading back into the hills...