Word: chased
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...retrospect, it was a mistake to chase the two men out of Sudan. In the mountains and caves of Afghanistan, they were newly safe from prying eyes. In 1998 came the attacks on the U.S. embassies in East Africa, for which al-Zawahiri, like bin Laden, was later indicted in New York City. That attack also set off a U.S.-led manhunt throughout the world in which dozens of members of Al Jihad were arrested and extradited to Egypt, further crippling the organization's infrastructure. The besieged group split into two factions. One side angrily denounced al-Zawahiri for dragging...
...appealing clarity. And last week an impromptu Bush put the war in perspective after introducing the Nigerian President in the Rose Garden. Squinting into the sun, which eliminates any temptation to smirk or bite his lip, Bush promised that "we're on the hunt" and we're "going to chase them down," then advised impatient Americans to get over their need for "instant gratification...
...offbeat animators at Pixar have cleverly inserted many more references into Monsters, Inc., which devoted (and even not-so-devoted) movie buffs will be able to recognize. Toy Story nostalgics will cheer at elements of the Toy Story 2 airport scenes—absolutely no one can make animated chase sequences as comically exciting and inventive as Lasseter and Co., who also manage to pay tribute to Disney movies galore. This distinctive combination of whimsy and wit defines a distinctive way of filmmaking—what I like to think of as the “Pixar genre...
...chase—20 percent: The flirtatious laugh over a cup of peppermint tea, the “accidental” arm brush in section. Looking for more than a dance-floor grind but less than a mortgage and talks of future children, I finally concentrated on the chase my junior year…with absolutely no success, of course. No, my boy toys were named Ben and Jerry, and they knew how to give me all the drippy-slippy, this-chunk-is-such-a-hunk, chocolate-covered sexual healing I needed...
...trying to belittle these efforts. The stamp collectors who will determine the biochemical pathways of the human body will bring more good to this world than anyone might imagine. However, the “Eureka,”—the breathless chase of uncharted physical processes—is what I am after...