Word: writs
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Keats chose as his epitaph "Here lies one whose name was writ in water." He believed that his life would be viewed as without consequence, and that he would be but one more transitory figure among the yearning and striving masses. Kennedy, too, I think, would have had his name writ in water, thus the appropriateness of his sea burial, because the best public servants disappear into the world, whose pain they feel. Every name is writ in water, which flows through...
Krajina is Kosovo writ large. And yet, at the time, the U.S. did not stop or even protest the Croatian action. The Clinton Administration tacitly encouraged it. Croatia was being advised by a shadowy group of retired American officers who had been sent to Croatia to help it fight against the Serbs...
...enough that The Prince of Egypt has Pharaoh's wife, rather than daughter, rescuing the infant Moses. But to depict the Israelites as having built the pyramids? Come on! Cheops erected his massive stone piles centuries before Joseph was sold into slavery! Holy Writ says the Hebrew slaves "built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses," not pyramids. ALFRED R. MATTHEWS Huntsville...
Perhaps it is writ deep into the psyche of our native land, but Americans are unaccustomed to gastronomic rules. Proper etiquette is dictated by the all-powerful edicts of Miss Manners: the ubiquitous "no elbows on the table," the less common, unwieldy knife switch-over between cutting and chewing and the taboo against soup-slurping. But etiquette in American dining is about propriety and little more. According to the owner and chef of Cafe Japonaise, things are different in Japan. Sushi neophytes need more than a willingness to embrace the strangeness of raw fish. Eating sushi is a matter...
...Spanish judges are responsible for the petition against the Chilean ex-dictator. According to Myers, the present writ of indictment sent to London only covers the kidnapping of a leftist Chilean leader, Edgaro Henriquez--a crime allegedly committed under Pinochet...