Word: copperizing
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Tsarapkin accepted the ibis with the thanks of the students of University of Moscow. Still, the copper bird made for an odd—and awkward—gift...
...gift, a copper weather vane in the likeness of an ibis, had been stolen just days earlier from atop the castle of The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. Editors at The Harvard Crimson, the campus daily and longtime rival of the Lampoon, immediately claimed responsibility for the heist...
Updike’s staff retaliated by kidnapping The Crimson’s president and managing editor and demanding back the copper bird as ransom. Eventually he released the newspaper leaders, who, instead of returning the ibis, presented it to the USSR’s deputy representative to the United Nations as a peace offering...
...time high in April and foreign-currency reserves are the largest ever at $37 billion. The economy is growing at its fastest rate since 2000, fueled in part by China's soaring demand for commodities?the 17,000-island archipelago is rich in oil, natural gas, gold, copper, nickel, coal, palm oil and rubber. Global confidence in Indonesia's prospects has also improved somewhat. In March, the country successfully raised $1 billion in its first international sovereign-bond issue since the 1997 Asian crisis...
...began to creep in. Then on Thursday evening, Acebes announced that in Alcala de Henares, a town about 19 miles northeast of Madrid where three of the ill-fated trains had originated and which the fourth had passed through, police found an abandoned white Renault Kangoo van containing seven copper detonators and a tape of Koranic verses recited in Arabic. That discovery harked back to the hours after the attacks in New York City and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001, when a rental car was found in the parking lot of Boston's Logan airport containing flight manuals in Arabic...