There are no Christmas dinners in the Bible, which is why America's Puritans, strict adherents of what that venerated text offers, never sat down by the raging fire awaiting St. Nick; indeed, they briefly banned Christmas in Massachusetts.
Less than a week after ringing in 2014, the London native sounded relaxed over the phone from Los Angeles after spending the holidays with her family in Barbados, ready for the "baptism by fire" awaiting this "New Year's Eve".
To make up for it, dry shoes and a feast (whipped up by the skillful porters with little more than a knife, two pots, some chopsticks and a fire) await.
No need for UCLA's Bruins to gather at the Morgan Center to watch the pairings announcement -- only Steve Lavin's firing awaits.
He died two years later, in a mysterious prison fire, while awaiting extradition.
After his father died in a mysterious prison fire while awaiting extradition to the US, Coke took over his notoriously violent "Shower Posse" gang.
All we needed to do to attract their interest and approbation, it was claimed, was to plow and plant large fields in the shape of the windmill diagram or, as others proposed, to dig canals suggestive of the Pythagorean theorem in Siberia or the Sahara, fill them with oil, set them on fire, and await a response.
Campgrounds carpeted with dust and pine needles, ash-filled fire pits awaiting the night's blaze provide more scents, more memories.
Dunn said Know Your IX expects to have a follow-up meeting with federal officials in the coming weeks, while FIRE is awaiting a response to an inquiry about the Montana resolution from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
Allies, adversaries, and agnostics all seem to be willing to follow his leadership as he aggressively seeks to quell the roiling seas and extinguish the burning fires that await his presidency.
