Word: wrought
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...story from somewhere off in the Third World -- less important, by inference, than the natural disasters in Hawaii, where four people died, or Florida last month, where 41 perished, in hurricanes. Yet the floods that have been building up in Pakistan over the past month have wrought one of the worst natural disasters there in 45 years. More than 2,000 people have drowned, and innumerable farm animals have been left floating in the polluted waters of a vast brown inland sea that has covered thousands of villages, the nation's ! major cotton and food crops, and a collapsed infrastructure...
...think." But less than 48 hours later, Bush himself was appearing live from the Rose Garden on the CBS This Morning show. The network's producers had plucked 125 somewhat perplexed people from a White House tour to ask questions while the Commander in Chief shifted uncomfortably on a wrought- iron lawn chair...
Listening, Fay shakes his head sadly. The forests have always yielded food and wood during the millenniums Pygmies have hunted in central Africa. They cannot conceive of the devastation that roads and logging have wrought upon tropical woodlands beyond their charmed world...
Pragmatism required, I thought, that I attend a technical college. My hand quivered a little when it wrote a checkmark in the yesbox on the MIT reply card. I dreamt in July that I'd move into Harvard Yard in the fall. Pleasant thoughts about wrought-iron gates, about pointless but titillating intellectual arguments and about a huge, well-financed library danced about in my brain, but disappeared when I woke up and remembered which school I'd chosen. It didn't mater. Prospective engineers...
From the construction-laden Revere Beach T station, the walk to the sand and water is only a short distance down--what else--Beach Street. Shelters and a gazebo, each decoratedwith ornate wrought-iron trim, invite strollers tosit a spell. The Boston skyline is less obviousthan at Wollaston. Unfortunately giant moderncondominiums looms over the beach, promptingmemories of Holyoke Center architecture that wouldrather be forgotten...