Word: ax
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...normally green lawn in front of the old mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, now littered with a thick debris of dead snakes, chickens and humans--at just one collection point in the city, authorities have gathered 3,500 corpses. On the Andaman coast in Thailand, soldiers are using an ax and a spade to dig out the body of a woman half-buried beneath a palm tree. Fifty miles south in Patong, a honky-tonk beach town on Phuket Island, 100 bodies are laid out in front of a morgue that has room to refrigerate only two. In Batticaloa...
...sickness or fevers. Ro'mam Luong, 55, was amazed at the color TV in the government office where the group stayed on their first nights back in Cambodia: "I have no idea what it is. It's very strange. But I like it. Now I want a hoe, an ax and a machete for farming." Reunited with relatives, the group has been given land by provincial authorities and building materials, tools and food from the U.N. High Commission for Refugees to start their new existences. "I lived in the jungle and did not hear anything from the outside world," said...
Doctrinaire critics might not admit it, but Anderson's example lends credence to her contention that in Episcopalianism, at least, some battles are already won. "A woman who really has a passion about doing ministry and doesn't have an ax to grind," she says, "can get a decent...
...choice. "He's a compromise candidate," says council member Mahmoud Othman. "Nobody wanted him at the start, but in the end nobody rejected him." Allawi is a former member of Saddam's Baath Party who left Iraq for London in the mid-'70s and was later attacked by an ax-wielding assassin when he refused Saddam's demands to return. Beginning in the early 1990s, Allawi's I.N.A. began working with the CIA against Saddam's regime; in 1996 the CIA tried to use the group in a disastrous coup attempt against Saddam. While some U.S. officials expressed relief that...
...expectedly exhausting because of the constant need to change the dynamics of your music-playing. But Ma says that the experience of playing with someone for the first time is not necessarily so different from playing with a longtime collaborator, like Ma’s friend and colleague Emanuel Ax...