Word: crescentic
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...separate report from two human rights organizations says that nearly half the population now faces starvation, and that poor families are resorting to such desperate measures as marrying off their underage daughters to older men in exchange for food security. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has appealed for $26.6 million to help them deliver aid to 260,100 vulnerable people. The fact that the number of Zimbabweans at risk is expected to rise to almost 20 times that number "gives a clear indication of how severe the situation is and could become," said Peter Lundberg...
...parallel between him and the Nazi regime his father served is thoughtless and, yes, discriminatory. Individuals are responsible for their own acts, not those of their kin. We should steer well away from shunning someone for their parent's actions or views, no matter how despicable. Erika Eineigel, Crescent Beach, Canada...
...learned as much from their robust pace as he did from the gritty humanism of Italian neo-realist films and the romantic sweep of Indian cinema in its postwar Golden Age. He was both an art-house auteur and a director of popular hits, at least in the Arab crescent. He made political points, often different ones in different movies, but his didacticism was typically overwhelmed by his irrepressible urge to entertain...
...narrowed its angle even further and focused on the nail of the big toe, which then got conflated with the crescent moon: a small step for mankind, but a big one for a foot.) Time and again, looking at carved Romanesque capitals and tympana in Catalan churches, from Ripoll in the north to Tarragona in the south, you catch yourself breathing his name. His bestiary of images, wild and swarming and drawn with a line as exact as a knife's cut, comes from multiple sources. One, obviously, was Hieronymus Bosch. Another was the decorative art of Islamic Spain, with...
...Syria and Israel. They also wants Syria to stop supporting anti-Israeli militant groups in Palestine and Lebanon (Hamas and Hizballah, respectively.) In other words, they want Syria to break away from its strategic partnership with Iran, the senior member of what's sometimes referred to as the Rejectionist Crescent, the arc of governments and militias stretching from Tehran to Gaza that oppose American and Israeli dominance in the Middle East...