Word: flown
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...Cities that for reasons of politics or religion were once gloomily repressive - Madrid, say, or Dublin - now rock to the small hours. In Prague the foreign visitors who get talked about are not the earnest young Americans who flocked there in the early 1990s, but British partygoers who have flown in for the cheap beer and pretty girls. The place that British historian Mark Mazower once called the true dark continent - and from whose curdled soul the horrors of fascism and communism sprang - has become Europa ludens, a community at play...
...fewer than seven times and added that if Bush is to be beaten, "We're going to have to get up off our asses and work." I think I gasped. On Thursday, he took a roundhouse swing at Bush over Iraq: "It's been days since the President was flown to an aircraft carrier"--note the passive tense--"to announce that hostilities in Iraq had ended...It's time for the President to ...tell the truth, that the war is continuing and so are the casualties...
...fewer than seven times and added that if Bush is to be beaten, "We're going to have to get up off our asses and work." I think I gasped. On Thursday, he took a roundhouse swing at Bush over Iraq: "It's been days since the President was flown to an aircraft carrier"-note the passive tense-"to announce that hostilities in Iraq had ended ... It's time for the President to ... tell the truth, that the war is continuing and so are the casualties...
...Afghanistan, where his parents believed he had established a school. Intelligence agents allegedly found his name on a money- transfer document from an al-Qaeda camp, and arrested him in Pakistan in February 2002, holding him in a windowless cell in Afghanistan until February 2003, when he was flown to Guantánamo. His family believes he was a victim of mistaken identity. Like all the estimated 680 inmates from 42 countries, Abbasi and Begg have not been charged and are not permitted lawyers. One captive, Mustafa Idr, an Algerian-born Bosnian citizen, wrote his wife via the Red Cross...
...safari suit and sandals waiting to confront his American cross-examiner. Since his capture on April 17, Barzan Tikriti had been through weeks of questioning on military and security issues at an interrogation center near Baghdad airport. Now it was time to talk money. A special interrogator had been flown in from the U.S. to take up the matter of Saddam's hidden wealth with the man long regarded as the dictator's financial mastermind. What the American found was a detainee not only willing to talk about his brother's finances but also eager to denounce the regime...