Word: cemented
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...Friday he was back in Leimen, the small West German town (pop. 17,000) where he is the biggest thing to happen since they opened the cement factory. The good burghers turned out 8,000 strong for a motorcade. There was a cannon salute and a trumpet fanfare, and then a town-hall reception. Everything was golden: the commemorative ring and the specially processed album by the Deep Purple rock group that he received, the distinguished-visitors book he signed. Down the street, at the Helmut Weber bakery, which displays in its windows the scuffed shoes and muddy togs...
...fast enough. Last week, 30-year-old construction consultant Yason Waru and his cousin Darni were sifting through the pile of rubble that was once their house. Built just a year ago, it was reduced to a 3-m-high heap of bricks, zinc roofing and chunks of cement in less than five minutes. "When the quake hit we had no time to save anything but ourselves," says Waru. Certainly, they received no earthquake warning from local officials. Because the reality is, it's still impossible to predict with any accuracy when the earth's plates will shift, triggering...
...Democrats will be shutting down the Senate over a matter of process rather than substance, a pinhead of principle most civilians will find difficult to understand. The Armageddon of confirmation battles-over the next Supreme Court Justice-will probably follow soon after, and it may cement a public impression of the Democrats as a party obsessed with the legal processes that preserve the status quo on issues such as abortion, gay rights and extreme secularism-and little else. The political damage may be considerable...
...night of Feb. 23, a Taliban bomber sneaked through the vineyards near Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, carrying an explosive device hidden in an old cement sack. He planted his bomb by the road, primed to go off just as a U.S. convoy came rumbling past. The bomber must have thought he was on home turf. His chosen site was just a kilometer or so away from the madrasah where a one-eyed cleric named Mullah Mohammed Omar launched a movement of young religious zealots in 1994. Within two years the Taliban controlled nearly all of Afghanistan, and Omar had forged...
When Mather-, Dunster- and Lever-ites return to Harvard this fall, they’ll find themselves sharing the East River with wrecking balls and cement mixers. The songs of sparrows, dog barks along the Leverett-Dunster walkway, the gentle whirring of Louie’s fluorescent Busch beer sign—all gone, muffled by the sounds of gas and steel...