Word: gate
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...second lieutenant colonel named Avanulis Smiley picked up the story from there, "Sir, they've also showed us seven buried IED sites. They gave us specific information-description of the houses, gate color, tree trunks...
...fortunes of the Marwaris grew, so did their cultural and social clout. Nowhere is this more evident than in Mandawa. Those who brave its blistering summer heat, these days, come as much for the seven-foot-thick turrets and spiked elephant gate of Kesri Singh's magnificent 18th-century castle as for the painted houses left behind by the Marwaris. Called "havelis," painting the walls and ceilings of their ancestral houses became a way for the strictly vegetarian Marwaris to show off a little. The ceiling of one such haveli, for example, shows the flute-playing Hindu god Krishna frolicking...
...which appears to have been packed with ball bearings. The force of the explosion was enough to peel the roof of the bus off and hurl it 10 meters [30 feet] away. General Ali Shah Paktiawaal, head of Kabul's Criminal Investigation Department, had just pulled up to the gate when he felt his bulletproof car leap in the air from the force of the blast. "I thought it was a landmine," he said. The rose garden at police headquarters, protected from the street by a thick, eight-foot wall, was littered with broken glass, charred metal and body parts...
...Isaiah-gate has come to an end. After slurring gay castmate T.R. Knight, going to rehab for the utterance, saying it again at the Golden Globes, then filming a PSA about his experience, Isaiah Washington has been fired from Grey's Anatomy. Mocks media blog JOSSIP: "Dr. Burke hangs up his scalpel; significantly lowers his chances of becoming next chief of surgery." SCORE...
...this attack," says the report, a copy of which was obtained by TIME. "Senior IP leadership at the station knew the coalition battle drills, and often watched them practice. The attackers knew exactly where to find the officers and which rooms were occupied by the Americans. The back IP gate was left unlocked and unmanned, and the Iraqi vendor and civilian workers absented themselves just prior to the attack...