Word: alighting
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...usually asleep in their nests at this time of day," he says, squatting down in front of a rabbit-hole-sized opening in a low embankment. After piling dried leaves and twigs in front of the burrow, he digs out a box of matches and sets the kindling alight, producing a thick cloud of white smoke. If the pangolin, a scaly anteater that looks like a cross between an armadillo and an opossum, isn't smoked out of its lair soon, Jema'ah (who like most Indonesians goes by one name) will set off again through the forest, clutching...
...wrecking of democracy." Many others share those sentiments. The day before the impeachment, a protester doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire in Seoul. The next morning, a man drove his SUV onto the stairs of the National Assembly building and set the car alight, shouting, "I'll kill you all!" On the night of the impeachment, thousands of outraged Roh supporters thronged the National Assembly grounds...
...will not see Iran the way I want to see it in my lifetime. But so what?" she says, talking so fast she outpaces her own breath. The adult Satrapi, like the child in her book, is a beguiling character. She is adrift in earnestness one moment, and then alight with brutal realism the next. From a hotel room in Austin, Texas, she marvels at the open-mindedness of the Americans who have come to hear her on a promotional tour. Her biggest problem so far is caused by the smoking restrictions. In Iran, she learned that the more forbidden...
...late, I saw why: the man with the torch had set alight a cache of ammunition. I got close enough to tell that the mound was mostly made up of artillery shells and rocket-propelled grenades. There were also chains of anti-aircraft shells, coiled up like a nest of brass pythons. Even though I was at least 150 feet away, the shock from the first blast knocked me off my feet. Lying on the ground with a mouthful of grass and sod, I watched as the earth erupted with shells and grenades, many of them flying off in random...
...mortar attack had been a diversion. The taxi had detonated near a Kurdish checkpoint where Moran had been filming some soldiers. The blast loosed a fireball, charred the asphalt and left the taxi a smoking hulk. A roadside stall was set alight. Paul died instantly. Two Kurdish soldiers were also killed and five more seriously wounded...