Word: eleven-year
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...eleven year-olds being killed weren't bad enough, now we have eleven-year olds doing the killing. Stone's movie, intended as a satire on that culture of violence, has quickly become part of that culture. As a Newsweek reviewer, put it, "Stone hasn't figured out how to make a movie about the estheticizing of violence without fetishizing it himself...
...Hastings Kamuzu Banda, then Malawi's Prime Minister and since 1971 President for Life. Munthali, who is in his early 60s, reportedly returned to Malawi in 1965 and was arrested. By some accounts, Munthali was never tried. According to others, he was charged with a firearms offense, served an eleven-year prison term, was immediately detained again when it expired and has been held since without charge or trial in the Mikuyu prison near Zomba. In the early years of his detention, Munthali's jailers reportedly applied gasoline to his legs and ignited them, causing injuries that were not treated...
...hypothetical planet Vulcan, supposedly the closest one to the sun, hoping to spot it in silhouette as it moved across the solar disk. In the process, he observed and kept meticulous records of sunspots over a 17-year period. Finally, in 1843, he recognized and announced the eleven-year cyclic nature of the spots and wrote, "I may compare myself to Saul, who went to seek his father's ass and found a Kingdom...
...million people are on the verge of anarchy, the ethnic and factional strife having unleashed a savagery evocative of El Salvador in the early 1980s. Many Sri Lankans stake the last hope for their island country on a democratic transfer of power that will end the protracted eleven-year rule of President Junius Jayewardene. That faith, a narrow one, rests on the prospect that a new administration in the capital city of Colombo may slow the insurgents' momentum. But "even if all the guns are put away," warns Education Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe, "this country will never be the same again...
...Bush. "No . . . new . . . taxes!" Read my lips. George Bush is ever at odds with language, as if he does not regard it as a reliable vehicle of thought. At his worst moments on the stump, his surreal moments, Bush is a sort of amateur terrorist of language, like an eleven-year- old Shi'ite picking up a Kalashnikov assault rifle for the first time and firing off words in wild bursts, blowing out the lamps, sending the relatives diving through the windows. Bush is mostly oblivious to the nuances of language, as if some moral or cultural dyslexia were knotting...