Word: contact
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...businessman in close touch with the U.S. government tells TIME that one commander who has attracted attention is Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai, a Sunni Muslim who was Saddam's Minister of Defense. Though Hashim was on the U.S.'s most-wanted list, this source says he was in contact with the U.S. before the war and was consulted by American officials after he was taken into custody in Mosul. A former CIA official says Hashim is "a great guy, basically an officer's officer." He adds that Hashim would "bring a real sense of empowerment" to Iraqis who never...
...never tried, and that if I was to appreciate its full efficacy I'd better practice inhaling something. Like cigarettes. The grass never did much for me, but oh, those Benson & Hedges! I can recall sitting in my Brandon Films office after lunch, my brain a-buzz on a contact cigarette high...
...contact high because I never did inhale - never have, since trying it once as a kid and thinking, "People take this stuff into their lungs?" But I must have become habituated to the act of smoking. I took a year off in the 70s, then tried a pipe, some little cigars, and back to cigarettes. In the 80s, while at the Cannes Film Festival, I discovered a brand with a droll name: Time. Turned out they were the French version of the American brand, More. (More, in French, sounds like the word for death. "Donnez-moi un packet de Mort...
...redundant because we just gave out our contact info, but I don’t like the fact that [the FDO] got rid of them,” Vetter said. “I would have changed it and made it more interesting [rather than eliminating...
...years ago, Traverso coated every inch of his body with Crisco, which performed the dual role of making him too disgusting to touch for most teammates and slippery enough to squeeze out of holds by the ones brave enough for contact. After it took “five showers” to get off the oil, he coated his body with shaving cream last year, and Johnson—inspired by Traverso’s effort the year before—used K-Y jelly...