Word: broads
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cafer Yilmaz was at work in his bakery on a broad boulevard in Istanbul's modern new financial district at about 11 a.m. last Thursday when a tremendous bang shook down the building's windows and walls. Across the street, yellow smoke poured from the 18-story headquarters of the British-owned HSBC bank, where a pickup truck packed with homemade bombs had just set off a mighty explosion. "That first moment was not at all like you would imagine from the movies," Yilmaz says. "No one was screaming or running. If you had slapped me, I would probably have...
...itself. Al-Qaeda can easily find "lots of idiots ready to blow themselves and others up in the name of some higher cause," says a senior French antiterrorism official. French intelligence authorities believe those second-generation radicals are forming scores of separate underground groups only loosely allied in a broad jihad movement. Because they're not large or well organized, they have proved tough to spot...
...newest front in a wave of terrorism strikes that have spread across the Muslim world in the past six months from Iraq to Morocco to Saudi Arabia to Indonesia, making this Ramadan holiday a bloody season. Fearing the campaign was not over, London and Washington issued broad warnings of possible imminent attacks against British and American interests abroad. In Muslim countries, the chosen targets have symbolized mainly Western and Jewish interests--Jakarta's J.W. Marriott Hotel, Casablanca's tourist sites and Jewish centers, residential compounds for foreign workers in Riyadh, Istanbul's synagogues and British offices. But a second assault...
...found it very, very informative. Everyone spoke broad-mindedly with a far-sighted view. It’s important that there is interaction between Chinese and Tibetans,” he said...
...enclosure, to relate to that time when we knew exactly where our boundaries were because all we had to do was reach out and touch them. College has become synonymous with freedom for many an American teenager, but often this freedom means that our options become almost terrifyingly broad. We flip bewilderedly through 800 pages of course offerings, we speak wistfully of “getting some direction” in our lives, we get new pamphlets in our mailboxes every day about “exciting new opportunities” among which we must pick and choose. Our views...