Word: dago
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...northeastern state of Assam. Police said militants ambushed an armed police convoy in the central district of North Cachar Hills, spraying it with automatic gunfire. An unknown number of other policemen were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the attack but police said that they suspected the Dimasa Halam Dago, a group that is fighting for a separate homeland in central Assam. In the neighboring Cachar district the United Liberation Front of Assam claimed to have killed eight soldiers and injured 15 in an earlier attack. PAKISTAN Killers Appeal A lawyer for the British-born militant sentenced to death...
...ability to draw meaningful biographical blood from the soundless stone that was Joe DiMaggio. It doesn't help that the existing historical record is a fabulous piece of packaging, abetted by three generations of sports writers who knew that "the Daig"--short, one is sorry to say, for "Dago"--was their meal ticket. But Cramer is an all-star reporter, and if his fertile prose at times sprouts too many colloquial tendrils and exclamatory blossoms, it soon gives way to the sheer muscle of his facts. Oddly, the book's weakest part is the section on DiMaggio's deathless entanglement...