Word: alien
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...Siku moja tu—only one day,” his reassuring voice uttered. Well, where might I sign up? “Sayansi.” For the uninitiated, in Swahili, “I” is appended to the end of many words of alien origin. Hilariously, my dictionary shows the term for “highway rotary” as “kipulefti.”But I had heard of “Sayansi,” by which they mean COSTECH, the National Commission on Science and Technology. To be precise...
...over Hizballah, but in the hide-and-seek dynamic of a guerrilla war, tanks and air strikes aren' t always enough. Some Israeli military officers are worried that the war is being waged the way the guerrillas want, dragging the Israeli Defense Forces into prolonged and messy battles on alien turf. Early on, the Israeli plan was to launch swift punches on the militants' rocket-launching positions and then to withdraw. But Hizballah began to play the game by their rules, drawing the Israeli troops into lengthy ambushes in places where their vaunted 21st-century war machine was of little...
...it’s his voice that does the enriching. It’s gorgeous to the point of being a little too gorgeous, with a disarming, somewhat alien quality that lends his words a power they would otherwise lack...
...Radiohead fan isn't always been easy. "Fake Plastic Trees," from the bands 1995 record, The Bends, may be one of the most poignant love ballads ever written, but Radiohead has never been a band for the faint of heart. Among the subjects Radiohead has tackled head-on are alien abduction ("Subterranean Homesick Alien"), the dangers of political apathy ("2+2=5') and death ("Pyramid Song"). For a few short years in the early '90s it was possible to love the British quintet without a shred of guilt or defensiveness. On "Creep," the band's searing 1992 hit single...
...reprehensible network" of European nations that, he said, allowed the cia to operate on their soil, provided stopover points for suspects en route to a torture location, or exchanged information with U.S. intelligence that eased the torture process. This system of enabling torture is, in Marty's view, "utterly alien to the European tradition and sensibility." Numerous governments have denounced these charges as untrue; Marty himself admits that proof is wanting. But again, let's assume the allegations are basically sound. [an error occurred while processing this directive] What do they show, and what are the chances that this zealous...