It's understandable that the Kennedy family wants to create a legend in fire, marble, and words out of the memory of its fallen brothers and fathers.
The name means "workshop of semi-precious stones", and, as Drabble says, the names alone are poetry: "jasper, chalcedony, fire-marble with fossil shells".
The United States and Mexico have announced several steps to improve safety along the California border, including a pilot program to arm Border Patrol agents in San Diego with nonlethal weapons that fire marble-size pepper pellets to disperse crowds.
The activists retaliated with molotovs and iron marbles fired from slingshots, disabling the CCTVs in the neighbourhood.
The activists retaliated with molotovs and iron marbles fired from slingshots, disabling the CCTVs in the neighborhood.
The activists retaliated with Molotovs and iron marbles fired from slingshots, disabling the CCTV cameras in the neighborhood.
The same correspondent mocked Israel's refusal to permit journalists to approach the Gaza fence, instead positioning them "at a safe distance... where they were in no danger of being hit by a rock or by a marble fired from a sling or, God forbid, inhaling teargas".
Did he expect the IDF to send him a photo of a "marble fired from a sling?" Inasmuch as Israeli forces were equipped with sophisticated surveillance equipment, including "footage from drones hovering" overhead, and insofar as Israel claimed to use lethal force only against "those who are with weapons," the lack of evidence of these alleged explosives and live ammunition is surely cause for wonder.
For five days, from dawn to dusk, Homstol, Brabyn and von der Porten followed Oscar everywhere, and every time they found him in circumstances they deemed "inappropriate" or "conflict," they pulled out their slingshots and fired at him with marbles.
Many of the new homes have amenities like backyard fire pits, marble tubs and finished basements that might include a full bar, an exercise room, a regulation-size pool table and a mud room, said Mr. Skiffington, who builds four or five new lakefront homes a year.
