Word: gathering
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This is not a newfangled ice cream scoop; it's a fast way to gather ammo when your brothers are packing ice. The Snow Baller joins a full range of winter gear at this rather goofy-looking site, part of fincosport-n-toys.com...
...enjoyment... it is actually repulsive." Chief superintendent Tang How-kong, Hong Kong police public-relations head, revealing that Hong Kong vice officers are permitted to receive "masturbation" services to gather evidence against prostitutes...
...don’t want to restrain anyone from anything,” said Salazar. “We want to gather all the material we can and then see if it’s tasteful and go from there...
...terse but plaintive note on the bulletin board: seeking place to eat real Lithuanian meal. Secretary Agnès Geniusaite explains: "We're all looking for places to eat our traditional food." There are, alas, no Lithuanian restaurants in Brussels. So every few weeks Geniusaite and colleagues gather at somebody's house for dishes like balandeliai (stuffed cabbage) and saltibarsciai (a kind of borscht). The Lithuanians are not alone in their plight. In the past year, some 4,000 people from the 10 countries scheduled to join the E.U. in 2004 have moved to Brussels to work in embassies, delegations...
...sneaking into Iraq. "Too much of our stuff is too complicated for what is happening in Iraq now," says an Army colonel. "All the smart bombs are worth nothing if you don't know where to drop them." What's needed is intimate knowledge of neighborhoods where the insurgents gather. And that's something the U.S. and its coalition allies lack. "The U.S. Army does not have a fraction of the linguists required to operate in the Central Command's area of responsibility," says a report from the Center for Army Lessons Learned at Fort Leavenworth, Kans...