Word: horned
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...opened the match by trading points until the Crimson found itself on top, 7-5, thanks to a monster kill from Ingersoll, who hit for .485 and 14 kills throughout the match.“You see that the glue really is [senior Lily Durwood], [co-captain Chelsea Ono Horn] and [senior Katherine Kocurek], even though she’s in and out,” Weiss said. “They really hold together the team. And so then Anne Carroll Ingersoll is seeing the block well, she’s working hard. And I’m excited...
...Moore's magnum opus: the grandest statement of his career-long belief that big business is screwing the hard-working little guy while government connives in the atrocity. As he loudly tried to confront General Motors CEO Roger Smith in Roger & Me in 1989, and pleaded through a bull horn to get officials at Guantanamo to give medical treatment to surviving victims of 9/11, so in Capitalism he attempts to make a citizen's arrest of AIG executives, and puts tape around the New York Stock Exchange building, declaring it a crime scene. (See the 25 people to blame...
...streets of Sana'a are high, or about to get high - not on any sort of manufactured narcotics, but on khat, a shrub whose young leaves contain a compound with effects similar to those of amphetamines. Khat is popular in many countries of the Arabian peninsula and the Horn of Africa, but in Yemen it's a full-blown national addiction. As much as 90% of men and 1 in 4 women in Yemen are estimated to chew the leaves, storing a wad in one cheek as the khat slowly breaks down into the saliva and enters the bloodstream...
...read you all didn't rehearse beforehand. That particular day I didn't have any instructions or anything - [Miles] would just tell me what the cadence and time signatures were and things like that. He may have had some rehearsal with the horn players, but that day he just came in with some manuscript paper and they went right to it. (Read: "Montreux: Beyond the Blues...
...Somali and Lebanese descent--are believed to be connected to al-Shabaab, an Islamic group fighting Somalia's enfeebled government; officials said at least one had participated in the insurgency. Analysts say the plot highlights the prospect of future attacks by Western radicals steeled by combat in the Horn of Africa. Terrorism is rare in Australia, a close U.S. ally, though its citizens have been targeted overseas...