The oak staves from which barrels are made were originally softened over a small fire in order to bend them into the requisite curved shape.
But tradition is not ignored, for it turns out that the toasting associated with the old way of bending staves also contributed to the flavour of its contents.
She staves off the reader's frustration by filling gaps with educated guesses, mining Fitzgerald's juvenilia, decoding marginalia and, as Fitzgerald's quirks hardened into crabbiness, summarising the caustic notes the grande dame prepared on other writers".Those who did not like Penelope Fitzgerald found her reserved, perverse, stubborn, mischievous, wilful and sharp- tongued.
He had 200-300 people with him, "mostly on foot, holding staves, wearing rough boots and poor cloaks", and two tents, one of which his mother occupied.Then, in an astonishing reversal of fortune inconceivable in the modern world but commonplace in those uncertain times, Babur gained an army.
In clashes in October PAD members fought the police with guns, bombs and sharp staves, hoping the army would again use disorder as the pretext for a coup.
The AL admits that it has distributed staves among its followers for impending battles with BNP supporters.
A video smuggled out by one of the villagers shows his fellow residents being beaten with staves and shovels by a mob of 300 or so helmeted young men.
It merely staves off the symptoms, and it may not break the chain of infection, as people taking the drugs are still able to transmit the virus.
The chanting grows louder as police reinforcements with staves and body shields pile out of armoured buses.
HOLIDAYS in the BlackBerry era can be divided into two categories: "soft" (where the vacationer stays in radar contact and continues to exercise his thumbs) and "hard" (when he staves off divorce by switching everything off).
The police instead they acted in self-defence, and had tried lathis (bamboo staves) and tear gas before resorting to live fire.In response to the deaths, the GJM has called a total "bandh"—a self-imposed curfew and there have been reports of isolated violent incidents, including the torching of a police outpost.
