Word: blazed
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...electricity at certain times of the day. Foreign reporters who visited Shinuiju last month, for the unveiling of a plan to turn it into a free economic zone designed to lure investors, were struck by the contrast with the neighboring Chinese city of Dandong. Dandong at night is a blaze of lights; across the river, Shinuiju is in near-total darkness. Apartment blocks in Pyongyang are lit at night these days, but there are few lights outdoors - except, of course, those illuminating the gigantic statue of the "Great Leader...
...ready for a blaze of publicity for "I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother" (Knopf), a funny and smart first novel by British journalist Allison Pearson. The book, a diary of the travails of working motherhood, is already being compared to the bestselling "Bridget Jones's Diary." When the Pearson book was published in England last year, the Times of London opined, "This is Bridget Jones five years on." Obviously, this is the kind of talk that thrills authors and publishing houses. Pearson admits, "it is not a comparison I would wish...
...Gulf War and is committed to acquiring nuclear weapons. When he does acquire them, containing his aggression will be far more difficult; he will perceive cooperation with terrorists as a lesser risk to himself; and threats to his rule could be the occasion for a savage man's last blaze of infamy...
...died as he lived, in a blaze of violence and under a cloak of mystery. Reports of his demise, from a bullet wound (or wounds) in his Baghdad residence raised more questions than it answered. Did the 65-year-old Palestinian born Sabri al-Banna die by his own hand - as the Iraqis say - or was he killed, as his Fatah Revolutionary Council organization claims? For whom was he working while in Baghdad? (Abu Nidal may have proclaimed himself a champion of the Palestinian cause, but he spent most of his career freelancing for various Arab and even possibly some...
...Controlled fires are sometimes set to deny fuel to an approaching blaze...