Word: carpetting
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...deceiving. With his free hand, he raised his long club high over his head, and brought..the club crashing down on the girl's head. The force of the swing nearly lifted the trooper from the floor; the girl screamed and blood cascaded onto Dean Glimp's blue carpet" (The Harvard Strike, L. Eichel...
...December 1979 in order to replace one Communist leader, Hafizullah Amin, with Babrak Karmal, another Communist but one more amenable to Soviet thinking on many issues. Soviet troops quickly became enmeshed in fighting with the budding resistance movement. Moscow has tried to defeat the rebels with everything from carpet bombing to lightning commando attacks, all to no avail. Soviet offers of bribes, cease-fires and amnesties have also failed to quell the mujahedin...
Officially Baker is neutral in this race. Actually he is on the phone constantly with the Vice President, his friend of 30 years. "The best thing I can do for now is stay right here," he tells inquiring pols, pointing down at his thick beige carpet. A light pink shirt may sit puckishly against his somber Treasury pinstripes, or an Hermes tie may softly signal his worldly strides...
...some worried that the carpet might not last. "It's nice, but when the rice gets ground in it'll be bad," said Jerome D. Chao...
...Nobody likes it. Even the boss doesn't know why they did it," said dining hall worker John Coelho. As soon as someone spills food on the carpet, he said, "It's going to smell...