Word: cements
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...personal decisions. My joining the Spee, whether I liked it or not, affected people. It perpetuated a system that I think we don’t need anymore. The notion of men needing a space to “just be themselves” is old-fashioned and helps cement what I see as unfortunate gender divisions. It assumes that men are men and women are women and, heck, they’ll just never see eye to eye. I think this is untrue, and a lazy way to think about gender and belonging to a community. By joining...
...pirates accused the crew of hoarding it. One Somali fired a shot through the window on the bridge. "We thought this trip was the end of our lives," remembered able seaman Rashid Juma Mwatuga, 42. In late September the Ibn Batuta, an Egyptian ship carrying cement, appeared on the horizon. "The pirates told me they were going to hijack this passing ship," says Mahalingam. "What could I do?" The pirates jumped into their speedboats. Half an hour later the Egyptian ship's captain radioed the Semlow to say that he had been captured too. The ships sailed together towards Harardhere...
...also managed to grab the high-ranking title of assistant to the President and a seat on the National Security Council, not to mention his own CIA intelligence briefing every morning, just like his two bosses. From that powerful position, Libby helped the Vice President in his first term cement his reputation as a bold interventionist abroad and a friend of the corporate world and its oil companies at home. When Cheney quietly tried to bring a more experienced political hand on board to steady his creaky operation in late 2004, Libby maneuvered even more quietly behind the scenes...
...Banshee Beat” and “Daffy Duck,” both of which run upwards of seven minutes, cement this transition towards a newly primordial Collective sound, culminating in the haunting transience of “Loch Raven,” the showpiece of the album’s latter half...
...officer observed a cement pillar that was destroyed by a construction boom lift at 202 Longwood Ave. at the Harvard Medical School campus. The officer reported no injuries...