Word: afar
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...Hillel is very beautiful from afar, but up-close, you can't see us very well because our faces are turned away," he said, emphasizing the need to create a community more concerned about reaching...
NCGUB is a Washington-based international organization that considers itself a provisional government. It consists of the democratically-elected officials exiled from Burma's 1990 elections, who are trying to restore human rights and democracy in Burma from afar...
...concerned, complaining about everything from snakes to ants to poisonous spiders. And each time they also attempt to come up with a way of getting back at their neighbors. Beep and Kitty attack the neighbors' toy poodles in the street, bug their apartment and even spy on them from afar...
...pilots may have seen were two D-5 Trident missiles fired at that time by the submarine USS West Virginia off the coast of Florida, says the FAA. Because the night was very clear, the missiles, fired eastward over the Atlantic toward the Azores, could have been visible from afar, says the Navy. But Navy Captain Michael Doubleday doubted that the test could explain the pilots' sightings. "It stretches the imagination that anybody could see 1,900 to 2,000 miles, no matter what altitude they are flying at," he said. The fact that the planes and the missiles were...
...Monterone, a distraught father who accuses the notorious, skirt-chasing duke of dishonoring his daughter. Monterone responds by cursing Rigoletto, praying that he may know first-hand a father's misery. Of course, the curse comes true, for the duke has already espied Rigoletto's beautiful daughter Gilda from afar. Not knowing who she is, he proceeds to make her his next conquest...