Word: brandished
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...choose the venues for such talks, then listen in and even videotape the proceedings. Secret police hang around the scene to observe any covert behavior, like whispered conversations or note passing. Inspectors have been reluctant to ask any scientist to be interviewed outside the country because the security forces brandish lists of relatives whom they are ready to punish if the scientists give anything away. Thus far none have agreed to leave Iraq...
...this sleepy province in the heart of the Isaan region 620 kilometers northeast of Bangkok, where men are men and bugs are food, just about everyone is happy to regale you with tales of monster sightings or giant, snaking tracks left in the riverbank's mud. Some locals brandish grainy pictures of what could be anything from a log to a boat, and swear it is evidence of the outsize serpent. And then there's that postcard: ubiquitous and eye-catching, of a band of U.S. service members purportedly stationed in the area in the early 1970s, staggering under...
...anyone possibly recommend watching the video of Daniel Pearl?s murder? On it, the terrorists who abducted the Wall Street Journal reporter in Pakistan force him to declare his Jewish heritage and condemn the U.S. government; they then saw the head off his limp body and brandish it while a list of demands scrolls up the screen. It is awful, evil, dehumanizing. But does that mean it?s not also a part of history? Last week a weekly newspaper declared that it was. The Boston Phoenix provided a link to the footage from its Web page and showed Pearl...
...Israeli government must brandish a stick as well as extend a carrot. Suicide bombings must be punished with a disproportionate, but predetermined, military response. As Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz has proposed, the Israeli Defense Forces should release a list of targets that will be destroyed in response to each terrorist attack. That way Palestinian terrorists will know exactly who among their own people they harm when they commit murder so they can properly weigh their own perceived costs and benefits...
...short, stalky white male entered and robbed the bank, according to an FBI spokesperson. The suspect did not brandish a weapon, and no one was injured in the holdup, according...