Word: gimlet
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...More than additional U.S. troops, Afghanistan needs a leader who can deliver - and do it fast. Is Karzai able to be that leader? "Despite all the deal-making he's done to get elected, is it in his character to turn around and look at things in a gimlet-eyed [pragmatic] way?" asks one Western diplomat. Karzai's past record would say no. But lately, as he paces through his palace garden, with his bodyguards always in his shadow, he must have realized the extent to which the diplomatic community and his own people have forsaken him over the election...
...hotel's new management decided to put a reassertion of 1930s style at the forefront of a lavish renovation project completed earlier this year. The Langham Yangtze Boutique now boasts the kind of rooms and public spaces that a tuxedo-clad Noel Coward would have enjoyed lolling about in, gimlet in hand - think period-style furnishings, a lavish deployment of geometric patterns and motifs, and a masculine color palette of chocolate, cream and deep...
...largely through Valland's clandestine work that France was able to recover more than 100,000 works of art - 60,000 immediately after the war, and 40,000 over the next decades - and return them to their rightful owners. But some art slipped past Valland's gimlet eye; the Nazis amassed so much loot that they had to set up other clearing houses to process the flood of paintings and objects, many of which belonged to Jewish families killed in the Holocaust. Some of the art changed hands many times; Nazis collected and traded "degenerate" art - Picasso and the Impressionists...
...migrant workers from tiny villages in every corner of China standing wide-eyed on the streets, lured by the hundreds of thousands of jobs the boom has created. Then there are those from even farther afield--venture capitalists from San Francisco, artists from Brussels, chefs from Rome, legions of gimlet-eyed businessmen from Taipei, Berlin and Tel Aviv--all drawn to make fortune or fame or maybe just to say "I was there the year that Beijing welcomed the world...
...Nick, with the gimlet stare and the thin taut lips, is at first flummoxed by this amiable alien element: where the police station has a "swear box" (saying "nob" gets you a 10p fine), where the pub owner vaguely enumerates the wine selections as "red and... white," and where a man who's had his head cut off is described as "decaffeinated." Sanford might be the Shire, and the residents human Hobbits, to an alpha-male Aragorn like Nick...