Word: gushes
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...risky? Then how about a getaway to the Gaza Strip? Most people think of this section of the Israeli-occupied territories as a wretched, raging refugee camp. But it also offers a gorgeous, unspoiled slice of Mediterranean beach. The residents of Gush Katif, a collection of Jewish settlements on the Strip, bid visitors to come and swim, thanks to a new road from the Israeli border enabling tourists to skirt rebellious Palestinian villages -- and thus reduce the risk of a Molotov cocktail through the windshield. Although Gush Katif's Palestinian laborers have twice turned on their employers and stabbed...
...executives Eric Ober and Howard Stringer suggest, implausibly, that the co-anchorship was Rather's idea; Rather recalls that Stringer broached the notion. But even Ober, for all his gush about freeing Dan to report from the field, admits the goal is better numbers. In the 12 years since Rather took over for Walter Cronkite, the show's share of the audience has shriveled by a third. Meanwhile, Tom Brokaw's piece has shrunk only 10%, and Peter Jennings' has held steady -- heroic achievements in this twilight-of-the-networks...
...When you get a government position like this one, it's like drinking from a fire hose," Nye said. "There's a gush of information and right now I'm trying not to drown...
...pounded the oil tanker Braer, grounded on the rocks of Fitful Head in the unspoiled Shetland Islands. Bit by bit, the cargo of 26 million gal. of Norwegian light crude leaked into the sea, turning it chocolate brown. On the seventh day, the pounding caused spouts of oil to gush spasmodically from deck hatches, making the tanker look like some pitiful beached whale blowing black blood in the throes of death. The following day the ship did die, splitting into at least three pieces and releasing all its remaining oil into the turbulent...
American culture vultures generally gush over the vigor and variety of the London stage and lament that their own vidiotic society offers nothing comparable. But for the past couple of years, although London's sheer theatrical volume has vastly exceeded Broadway's, the quality of new work has been conspicuously higher in the U.S., and London's saving grace has been imports, with recent best-play awards going to works from Ireland, Chile and New York City. The dependence is even deeper when it comes to musicals. When three opened in one week last month, the only homegrown entry...