Word: horseman
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...humane beliefs despite being pulled from school at the age of 12 and exposed to a near constant deluge of hateful propaganda, isolation and family pressure - seems to have been helped by a love of animals. A constant collector of pets - against his father's wishes - and an avid horseman, Omar's awareness of the madness of al-Qaeda was fueled in part by several acts of animal cruelty by his father's men. When they lived in Sudan, one of the family guards killed Omar's pet monkey by running it over with a truck, explaining that the creature...
...warm sunshine - so often the backdrop to bloody protests in London, from the anti-Catholic Gordon riots of the 18th century to the Notting Hill race riots in the 1950s - marchers set off for the bank from four of the capital's underground stations, each group led by a "horseman of the apocalypse." At London Bridge, protesters walked to the blast of a trombone with a medley of motives. "Can we overthrow the government?" bellowed Chris Knight, one of the event's organizers. "Yes we can!" Beside an effigy of Fred Goodwin, the former boss of the Royal Bank...
...quixotic, being a peace activist in Sderot, an Israeli town that has borne the brunt of rocket attacks from Gaza. When Israeli air strikes on Gaza began last month, hundreds of people from Sderot swarmed to a vantage point known as Horseman's Hill to watch the fiery spectacle and cheer. Nomika Zion was not among them. "I listened to one of my neighbors telling Israeli TV that the sound of the bombing was like a symphony, that he's never heard such powerful music before," she says. "And I was thinking, How many people are dying because of that...
...suits, as he demonstrated recently at a Seattle fund raiser. "Mark my words: it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy," Biden told the $1,000-a-ticket Democratic donors, who no doubt were startled to discover that the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse had ridden into the downtown Sheraton. "Remember, I said it standing here, if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch - we're going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy." A bemused Obama responded, "I think that...
...along only Roxanna, Viscountess Felicity’s personal maid. Their departure had been strange. Felicity had developed a sudden fear of horses, and she refused to ride or even to be driven in a carriage. So Roxanna followed Felicity on foot to the train station. Every time a horseman passed them, Felicity had shivered uncontrollably.Now they had spent two months already in the palatial villa which Roxanna could see rising into view up the road, the rows of tall cypresses framing bright walls. Two months, and no return date set. Roxanna wondered, blushing even at the thought, if Felicity...