Word: benign
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...fighters. A mile southeast of Beit Yahoun, a village straddling a ridge two miles north of Bint Jbeil, four Merkava tanks could be spotted, two of them parked in an olive grove, the other two nestled up against a house where the crews were billeted. The tanks looked as benign as sleeping dogs in the noonday sun, and temptingly juicy targets for the Hizballah men keeping an eye on them from the corner of a house in Beit Yahoun. The tanks were later joined by another Merkava and an armored bulldozer, which brazenly crossed the main road leading into Bint...
...night. "This one has really gotten to me." A British official says investigators believe the bombers planned waves of attacks. By blowing up planes over the Atlantic, they would make it nearly impossible to gather forensic evidence. Then after people returned to flying, the terrorists would strike again. That benign items--iPods and soda bottles, the stuff of teenagers' backpacks--could be turned into weapons of mass destruction seemed like a new, unsettling perversion. Or at least it felt...
...Natural remedies: They are not uniformly benign. Renal failure, seizures and bleeding disorders are a few of the known side effects of pills you can buy in health food stores. Socrates, we recall, was killed by an all-natural drink...
...terrorist activities or bring opposing parties to the mediation table. Ask any South African. We heard just the same tales regarding the terrorists and had all the same propaganda assault our ears, plus harsh laws to assure our safety. The result? The so-called terrorists are now the benign rulers and are making a success of the country and race relations. William Gould Oudtshoorn, South Africa Crossing out al-Zarqawi's face in blood red sent a strong message. He was an embodiment of evil who deserved his fate, and your graphic statement was right on the money. Still...
...Playing with numbers is the job of Nobel Prize-winning mathematicians. Wordplay is more like an obsessive hobby, a benign infection, a sweet kink of the mind, a kind of delightful dyslexia, In Wordplay, puzzle creator Trip Payne recalls that, when he moved from Manhattan to Fort Lauderdale a few years ago, he couldn't help mentioning to his new boyfriend that Intercoastal (the word for Florida's inland waterway) is an anagram for Altercation. In the movie, we see veteran constructor Merl Reagle driving past a Dunkin' Donuts shop and saying...