Word: bleat
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...ceremonial welcome for Musharraf ends in New Delhi, gunshots ring out over the mud-house village of Thajivara in southern Kashmir. Nadiya, 11, is walking the main road to school, 15 minutes away. Born in the second year of fighting, the sound is as familiar to her as the bleat of a goat. Like everyone else, she runs for cover in the roadside stalls where her mother usually buys the family's daily bread. She finds herself crouching next to laborer Mohammed Yusuf Gania and two other men, including Gul Mohammed Gania, a mason. Gul picks up Nadiya...
...Nice Treaty, and in so doing, managed to throw the ungainly process of reforming and expanding the E.U. into chaos. As Ahern, embarrassed and chastened, scrambled last week to recover, delegates at the E.U. summit in Gothenburg wondered whether the no vote should be ignored as a quirky bleat from a peripheral country, or be heeded, like the warble of a canary in a coal mine, as a crucial warning...
...don’t do that, the evil-curers bleat. We’ve got human rights and civil liberties and tolerance, and we’ve made people stop killing each other...
...Another familiar dodge is to pack the commission with ringers so that its ultimate recommendations merely ratify a president's existing position. This was the chief bleat coming from Congressional Democrats Wednesday as George Bush announced his Social Security task force. "The panel members on this Social Security commission would be the equivalent of oil companies on a commission on ANWAR [the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge]," said Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle...
...important for kids to spend time with their peers, the objectors will bleat. Well, yes, time with one's peers is great--but must it be every day, from eight till five and beyond? Surely this is arrant nonsense. Adolescents are messed-up, confused, insecure human beings, each buckling under an individual, angst-ridden burden. Why on earth would it be good for them to spend all of their time with other angst-ridden, insecure, unhappy types...