Word: barreled
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...regular army, which they argue should never have been disbanded. Others in the IGC, however, see the old army as dominated by Sunni officers, and some of the Kurd and Shiite parties want a greater role for their own militias. Political power in the old Iraq issued from the barrel of a gun, and the contenders for power in the new Iraq are in no rush to prematurely turn theirs into plowshares...
Blanketed by multi-colored strobe lights, the band played a number of hit songs, including “Keep It Together,” “Barrel of a Gun” and “Fa Fa.” At one point, ping-pong balls with the words “Harvard [heart]s Guster” written in black marker were thrown onto the stage. Some also blew soap bubbles in the direction of the band...
...shipwrecked woman by name of Spencer landed in Salem and founded the sweets company with little more than a donated barrel of sugar. Thus was the birth of the “Salem Gibralter,” the first commercially sold candy in the United States. Akin to an after-dinner mint that, according to candyman Ron, “melts in your mouth and not in your hand,” the pure sugar candy may lose its lemon or peppermint flavor but will never go bad. As proof, the Pepper Companie displays a jar of 173 year...
...turn, potential buyers can peruse the offerings and are welcome to publicly submit questions to the sellers about the items pre-purchase. “You can sell anything,” says Rapaport. “There is one guy selling an engraved silver double-barrel nut dish—it’s quite a work...
...Bush's strategists seem to be convinced that it would be disastrous for re-election purposes for the U.S. to hand over Iraq lock, stock and barrel to the U.N. But the U.S. has already shown that it has a superior ability to get rid of nasty dictators. So now why not let the international community finish the job? Are there any Americans who really want U.S. troops to stay in Iraq? Lennart Dahlbeck Stockholm...