Word: armfuls
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...folks, and immerse himself in foreign culture; this would be an exploration, a journey for body and spirit. Put like that, his Parisian parents sent him off with their blessings. But lying in a hammock on a hostel's veranda in Phnom Penh with a girl under each arm and a beer on the table, it's clear Herv?'s main discovery is that $10 will get him a room, all the grass and speed pills he wants, and a different prostitute every night. "What a city," he grins, hopping up out of the hammock and taking...
...survey Zhongshan Square, without a doubt cutting a more imposing figure than any Mercedes-chauffeured communist official or donkey-cart-driving farmer in this provincial capital of 7 million. Clad in an overcoat, which probably still leaves him chilly during the northeastern China winters, Mao stretches forth one arm over the sledgehammer-swinging, automatic rifle-slinging soldiers, workers and peasants surging forth from his feet in sculpted struggle against the forces of the West, capitalism, imperialism and whatever else. He offers, in short, the perfect place on a Friday evening in July for a self-proclaimed “American...
...took an interest in the BBC cameraman, pummeling him to the ground as he was filming. When the lion handler - who, we were rather disconcerted to notice, only had one eye - grabbed the chain around the lion's neck to pull it off, it swiped at the cameraman's arm, shredding his shirtsleeve...
...jumped at the hat and tore it to shreds. By this stage we were all getting very nervous. The lion ran into a thicket of bamboo and the minister shouted something at the lion handler who disappeared for a few moments before reappearing with, tucked under his arm in the manner of a surfboard, a dead, stuffed lion. This is the one that didn't make it, the minister told us. In fact, the live lion had more than a little to do with the dead one's demise. Upon seeing his late sibling (stuffed with straw...
...Without leadership (meaning arm-twisting) from on high, Congress has never discovered any inclination to approve the sort of weapons-scrappings, base closings, and personnel cuts that the math demanded - not when the livelihoods of constituents were on the line. That was apparent at budget time at the end of June, when Rumsfeld proposed cutting the B1 bomber fleet - and just last week, 34 of the 60 members of the Republican-controlled House Armed Services Committee wrote to Rumsfeld warning him against trimming the Army...