Word: cinder
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...assuming that Israelis and Palestinians would build mutual trust through incremental steps toward peace. Instead, the opposite occurred. And so the hardest parts of a long-term peace remain to be resolved, but the goodwill that first put them on the table has long since been burnt to a cinder. For now, the best Israelis and Palestinians, and their regional and foreign backers, may be able to hope for is not to resolve the conflict, but simply to contain...
...radios the dispatcher that he'll be conducting a search inside. But after looking in bathrooms, locker rooms, cinder-block hallways, and coaches' offices, he finds no one inside...
...self-effacing young Moroccan--he turns 26 the day before the Games start--said he was honored to meet "Monsieur Bannister" and said Bannister's 3:59.4 time on a cinder track in 1954 was the equivalent of about 3:42 today, or a meter or so ahead of his own Rome record. Sir Roger chuckled and thanked...
Apart from cinder tracks turning synthetic, training has changed a little since Sir Roger's day. While he packed his into half-hour sessions of 440-yd. repetitions, El Guerrouj reels out a total of 5 hr. a day at a high-altitude camp at Ifrane, in Morocco's Atlas Mountains, wearing to exhaustion a series of rabbits that try to keep up with him. His coach, Abdelkader Kada, has said, "He needs a coach to tell him he is doing too much, not too little...
...Democrats were no doubt frustrated by the quiescence of the punitive Republican cinder dicks ("cinder dicks" being the Depression-era hoboes' term for the railroad detectives who carried clubs and threw traveling men off the freight trains, which has been, if you think of it, the work of the Gingrich/Falwell brigades). In his acceptance speech, Bush offered scraps to the party's fiercer elements, but mostly they stayed belowdecks, like Ahab's harpooners. They were content to have the conservative Dick Cheney on the ticket, and the knowledge that the next president will be substantially restocking the Supreme Court...