Word: warms
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...night's football game, the pattern of a soft cotton dress bought special on Main Street--have always been the rare joy of American soldiers far from home. For every Dear John letter serving notice that a soldier had been dumped by his best girl, a thousand others served warm reminders of Mom's cooking for a holiday picnic under the oak tree in the backyard. And it was in this home-and-hearth spirit that the doughboys, G.I.s and grunts wrote back...
...positioned on a slight rise leading to a scarred wall--all that is left standing of the building--and look down to a long black reflecting pool, three-quarters of an inch deep and flush against the surrounding granite pathway of stones salvaged from the rubble. They have the warm, pinto colors of the Southwest...
...life when months of hard work suddenly seem worthless. When in the space of a few hours his dreams are clubbed to death like so many baby seals. When dozens of cold showers won't rid him of mediocrity's foul stench. When he looks back on months of warm beers, second-hand clothes and those dark, cold nights, and asks, "Does anything really matter after all? Do I matter...
...have enjoyed many adventures over the past four years, but for me, there was one evening in particular that captured the essence of Harvard's social scene. It was a warm night last spring, well past midnight, and I was returning home from a gathering in a friend's room. Mt. Auburn street was nearly vacant, except for a shiny red sports car that cruised past me and pulled to a halt curbside. Out of the car emerged two well-dressed, well-coifed Harvard students--and a strung-out prostitute. As I stood entranced, my two classmates helped the wobbly...
With his followers, however, Sankoh is calm, warm, even grandfatherly. And when he gives commands, he delivers them softly. But what terrible orders they are. Operation Burn House was a campaign of arson. Operation Pay Yourself was one of looting. Operation No Living Thing saw mass executions and the mutilation of anyone within reach. His 15,000 to 45,000 soldiers follow him as if he were a god. And Sankoh believes he is divinely inspired. Says he: "God chose me to lead the revolution that will save Sierra Leone...