He explained that engineers had been able to examine the bridge visually, and had started surveying likely sites for access roads and where to place the heavyweight crawler crane. NR was also ordering the aggregates needed for the access roads.
[…] protestations of friendship, and expressions anticipative of the pleasure which must inevitably flow from so happy an acquaintance, were exchanged […]
Some of you might be familiar with the Yiddish mantra, a third German, two-thirds Hebrew—keinahora (meaning “no evil eye”)—said to defend against compliments and good wishes and occurrences of good luck. Should someone praise the beauty of your child or her intelligence, or congratulate you on your newborn baby, you must hurry to ward off the evil eye and say keinahora.The kind and wise congratulator of the newly delivered mother knows well enough only to whisper a blessing in the mother’s ear lest it provoke the demons who are surely trying to catch what is being said in order to blast the infant and make the mother doubt the very intentions of the congratulator.
