Word: barking
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...blare of auto horns replaced the bark of gunfire. Lebanese police, backed by soldiers, took over the streets of West Beirut, while the Lebanese army returned to barracks that it had not occupied for five years. As soldiers under the protection of French Foreign Legionnaires cleared away earthen barricades, the Sodeco crossing point between East and West Beirut was opened for the first time since 1978. It was quickly closed, however, when sniper fire from members of a small militia group, Partisans of the Revolution, caused a halt in traffic. But an hour later the leader of the group, Moustafa...
...days, if a boss saw a worker with his feet propped on his desk, he would probably furrow his brow and bark, "Don't get too comfortable, Bumstead!" Times change. Today's executive might buy the employee a more relaxing chair. The manager would be applying one of the latest buzzwords in American business: ergonomics. Says Michael J. Smith, chief of motivation and stress research for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health: "There isn't one major computer maker or office-furniture maker that doesn't have ergonomics experts designing his equipment...
...structures and quirky personalities. Facetiously, he reminds us, is one of the few words in which all the vowels appear in the proper sequence; duoliteral is one of the even fewer in which they all appear backward. Kinnikinnik, he reports, is not only an Indian smoking mixture of bark and leaves but the longest palindrome among the 450,000 entries in Webster's Third New International Dictionary. Cuspidor is the word that James Joyce declared to be the most beautiful in the entire language...
...houses several Katyusha rocket launchers and fieldpieces. In response, P.L.O. Katyushas came crashing down on suspected Israeli positions in East Beirut. Fires flared up along the skyline competing with the flashes and sparks of the artillery The noise level became stupendous: the whoosh-whoosh of the Katyushas, the brazen bark of the tanks, the gossipy chatter of machine guns...
...painstaking response. "The majority of people who have any strong dislike for me don't know me. From the outside looking in, they see a fellow from New York City, relatively affluent, very aggressive. I come on very strong. But," he says with a very engaging grin, "my bark is much worse than my bite." Later, he comes back to the same theme. "I have a very strong personality. I come on very strong. I have lots of enthusiasm. I do lots of things that are fairly visible, and when I do them that can be offensive to people...People...