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...lucky. The car owner who opened his door in front of me didn’t give me the chance to brake. I saw the door, and then slammed into it with my neck and shoulder. Pain shot down from my neck to my shoulder and arm. I screamed in agony and in anger. If the driver had looked in his rearview mirror before he opened the door, he would have seen my front light (it was 5:15 p.m., already dark) approaching him along with the traffic on Broadway. If he had looked, I might be able to lift...
Hopefully, in time and physical therapy, I’ll recover full motion in my arm. Already, my eye looks a bit better. But I winced when I heard the biker’s question. I remembered my impact. In my mind’s eye I saw that car door open in front of me again, that split-second before I was screaming in pain and in fury, at the door, the driver and the world that let this happen to me, now, right before I was supposed to go snowboarding with my family over break, right before...
...keys to Hamas's popularity is its large-scale welfare arm. Hamas provides educational, medical and other desperately needed welfare services in impoverished West Bank and Gaza towns and refugee camps, creating a marked contrast with the image of corruption and cronyism most Palestinians have of Arafat's administration. The welfare arm also cares for the families of suicide bombers and others who have died fighting the Israelis, making suicide bombing a macabre form of life insurance in impoverished Palestinian communities. The social services performed by Hamas also create a pretext for the massive funding the organization receives from Muslim...
That said, take the trees down already. Inappropriate as it is, the swastika comparison shows that to some people, public endorsement of a Christmas tree might be the spiral arm of something dire. And if Christmas trees are so harmless and secular, why are we bent on erecting them? To prove that Our Fun can’t be spoiled by Some Whiny Minority? Let’s find a new way to decorate, one that generates festivity and spirit instead of bad analogies. I recommend bright fabric, big jars of pasta and squashes with wigs...
...civilian analysts, two-thirds of which are Ph.D.'s, spends weeks crafting the 4th Psyop's messages. "It's vastly more difficult to influence a hostile foreign audience than it is to introduce a soft drink into the market," says Robert Jenks, who heads the group's research arm. Leaflets have to be kept simple and visual because of Afghanistan's high illiteracy rate...