Word: blur
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...arrived at the scene the day after the incident. According to the organization, witnesses say Ali Ghaliya gathered his family to leave the beach after the first shells hit, to the north. Two survivors told HRW they heard the sound of an incoming projectile and saw a blur of motion in the sky before the explosion. Computerized hospital records show the first patients were admitted at 5:05 p.m.--which, given the time it takes for an ambulance to drive to and from the scene, suggests that the explosion might have occurred during the time the I.D.F. acknowledge they were...
...short “boop” announced that I had new e-mail. My fingers moved in a blur across the keyboard with a swiftness born of three years of e-mail addiction. The message in my inbox said that the private e-mails of one of Harvard’s exclusive social clubs were publicly accessible. Other Harvard students across a few other e-mail lists had already been forwarded this information, but so far the link to the social club’s e-mail archives hadn’t been widely distributed...
Even though Mr. A, a convicted rapist, pulled his jacket over his head as he strolled out of a Dublin courtroom last week, a few dogged photographers managed to capture shots of his face. But the next day, every Irish newspaper that brandished his image had to blur out his features. The 41-year-old, who gave half a dozen Bacardi Breezers and vodka shots to his daughter's 12-year-old friend during a sleepover three years ago, and had sex with her when she woke up to vomit during the night, could not be identified - because...
...want to lose what makes us "us." We're freezing up, right as our melting pot gets to the melting point, and our disparate identities are about to blur away. Can we as a society turn the heat back on without passions becoming so inflamed...
...however, is a senior-laden Princeton varsity that has spent the last three seasons just one boat out of first place. The Tigers’ dual victory over Harvard in April was the first win for the varsity since 2001, and Princeton demolished dual competition in a blur of lopsided open-water wins.But Harvard has had three weeks to fine-tune, seat race, and harness speed—a luxury that is impossible in the back-to-back frenzy of dual season. A series of lineup changes and substitutions due to injury have left Harvard with different lineups, a move...