Word: clue
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...million copies in 60 languages, and a million new readers discover him every year. His reputation as a champion of freedom, decency and clean prose has long outlived his era. The term Orwellian has become synonymous with the horrors of totalitarianism. Yet many of those students haven't a clue who Orwell really was. Oh, they may know that his name was actually Eric Blair, or that he was English and died pathetically young. But the sheer immensity of his work - 2 million words of fiction, reportage, essays, poems and reviews - and the tantalizing contradictions of his life are today...
...most puzzling--and most tantalizing--clue involves the young woman's arms. Her left arm is intact, but her right one had been wrenched off below the shoulder. As it happens, two partial right arms turned up in the discarded mummy wrappings. The better preserved of the two is a woman's arm that may be in a flexed position; the hand on the arm is clasped. If attached to the young woman's body, the arm would be bent across her chest and the hand could have held a scepter--an Egyptian sign of kingly power. "This was clearly...
...example, a village matchmaker may have a letter containing a clue to Hanareh's whereabouts. Unfortunately, he has made a match a local thug disapproves of, and as punishment, he has been buried up to his neck in the dirt of a hillside. This does not prevent the thug from forcing Mirza and his sons to sing at the wedding. Which, naturally, is broken up by gunfire...
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...Saddam - or did they? - and troops found chemical weapons that later, diabolically, morphed into pesticides. Spend 30 minutes with cable news, and you'd be sure you knew where the war stood. Spend all day - the preferred mode of media professionals and the insane - and you'd have no clue...