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...There is an end-of-world ambience to Srifa as the hot wind blows down deserted streets, stirring the branches of eucalyptus trees and banging loose sheets of metal blown off shop fronts by the force of the exploding bombs. Other than the few Hizballah men who dart between the rubble, the only other signs of life are the packs of scrawny dogs who lope down the street and a pair of thin horses standing forlornly in the shade of a gas station waiting patiently, it seems, for a master who may never return...
...grenade launcher, and it's not until another Marine arrives to relieve him that he finally turns for the slit doorway. "Let me get outta here," he says. "I'm hit pretty bad." But the battle goes on: below the Marines' outpost, al-Qaeda fighters toting AK-47s dart in and out of view. As blood from Sardinas and Wilson pools at his feet, Sergeant William Morrow grips the grenade launcher. A fellow Marine spots an insurgent in the open. "Waste his ass," Tasayco urges as they open fire on the enemy below...
...also organized Quincy’s game. “Last year we slept in Adams dining hall for a couple nights.” In the past, participants have targeted not only each other, but actual intruders. In 2000, a Pforzheimer resident used a dart gun to hold up a stranger he found outside of his suite, believing that he was participating in the House’s annual game of “Gotcha,” according to an article published in The Crimson. Harvard University Police Department spokesperson Peggy A. McNamara told The Crimson then that...
...stopping for gas at a shoddy station, the Carter family receives directions from a shady attendant about a “shortcut” through the desolate and abandoned hills of New Mexico. Somehow, the Carters don’t seem to notice the somewhat obvious dark figures that dart around their RV as they drive...
...assignment for the class’s final project entailed using an object found in a Cambridge location designated by a dart hurled at a map of the city. Bloomfield followed her dart to Lee Street, between Harvard and Central Squares, only to find that her high school musical director was outside his house, tending to his lawn. She took a grass feed bag back as her object, but she also reconnected with her old acquaintance...