Word: gunness
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...were you released? I'd say it was largely due to their basic humanity. Another major reason was that I wasn't carrying a gun. Also, Japanese history was on my side. They might think the Japanese are sending soldiers to their country, but they also proudly show off their Toyotas, and they talk about Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...that "what was there isn't there anymore." He said a visiting Red Cross official had described "scorched" and damaged buildings radiating for four kilometers in all directions from the station. Rescue operations had apparently ended. Xinhua, quoting the North Korean in charge of the rescue efforts, Jang Song-gun, said the disaster occurred because an electrical pole was "knocked down after an oil tanker collided with two carriages loaded with ammonium nitrate...
...Gun magazines ominously appeared in the mailbox, along with almost daily missives from debt collectors. One morning the general himself appeared?in military fatigues, frothing at the mouth?and threatened to put me in a coffin. He pulled out a pistol-shape package, brandished it, then drove away. Was it a gun? Or simply a last-ditch attempt to scare...
When Henrik Ibsen wrote Hedda Gabler, he created characters whose psychologies would push them ever closer to destruction as the play progressed. Chekhov said that if a gun is onstage in the first act, it will go off in the last act; Ibsen is so bent on his characters’ destruction that he puts onstage two guns, a lighter, and a bar full of flammable alcohol. The move over Hedda’s duration from relative peace to high-strung shooting and burning is inexorable, highly telegraphed and oh-so-precisely plotted, rarely allowing a spare motivation or interaction...
...work proactively. Meanwhile, the bureau has increased the number of counterterrorism agents from 1,344 to 2,835, counterterrorism analysts from 218 to 406 and linguists from 555 to 1,204. Mueller has made a priority of finding people who don't want to wear a badge or a gun and are simply good thinkers, people who can look at seemingly unrelated events and connect the dots. Agents are now permitted to attend public gatherings in mosques and other religious and academic settings, search the Internet and mine commercial databases used by the financial-services industry. And "the wall...