Word: arching
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...Besides Muslim terrorists, the other villain of his piece will be NATO. He'll argue that the alliance's interventions were illegitimate interference in the affairs of a sovereign state, in pursuit of a new world order in which the U.S. was an arch imperialist trying to extend its control to every corner of the globe...
...Military action against Iraq is not imminent, administration officials insist. But at the same time, they are strongly hinting that it may be inevitable. Even the administration's arch dove, Secretary of State Colin Powell told a Senate Budget Committee hearing this week that the President was committed to achieving a "regime change" in Baghdad, and that direct military action was among the options under consideration. The administration's more bellicose tone is designed to set the stage for Vice President Dick Cheney's tour of the Middle East and Gulf region in mid-March to rally support for action...
...teams in particular are of interest for the Harvard team. The Crimson’s arch-nemesis, host and No. 1 Trinity, will have several teams competing...
...national museum in Kabul, many works of art that flowed from the cultural confluences in Afghanistan over thousands of years have been saved by traffickers selling them to outsiders, or by foreign archaeological expeditions. One of the most important of the latter was the Délégation Archéologique Française en Afghanistan, which was invited there in 1922 by the then King and which excavated near Kabul what has become known as the treasure of Begram. Among its finds was a trunk covered in carved ivory. Photos of it in the Guimet Museum show reliefs...
...Alliance soldiers, bleeding, coated in dust, began sliding down the side of the fort and staggering across the surrounding cotton fields. "It missed," said a soldier named Afiz, blood dripping from his eyes and ears. "I don't know where my friends are." From under the fort's entrance arch, SAS and American soldiers emerged choking and spitting. "We have one down, semiconscious, no external bleeding," a radio crackled. "We have men down," a special-operations soldier told TIME. "Get out of here. Please...