Word: inflamedness
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Conjunctivitis is an infection of the eye in which the conjunctiva—the lining of the eye and the eyelid—becomes irritated and inflamed. The most common symptoms of conjunctivitis are irritation, visual sensitivity and discharge from the eyes.
But I was wrong. Beneath a bumpy surface of inflamed rhetoric, there lay a foundation for mutual understanding. Believe it or not, these two groups, who stood on opposite sides of the street, chanting against each other, would actually agree on quite a bit. Despite their opposition to the demonstration...
Even so, European alarm persists: Britain's foreign secretary Jack Straw said Thursday that his government would press for the British subjects held at Guantanamo to be returned to the U.K. to stand trial there, rather than before a U.S. military tribunal. An American diplomat had further inflamed European tempers...
Three sets of issues define the controversy. The first is simply their treatment: Humanitarian concerns over keeping the detainees in open-sided cages, for example, were inflamed by the U.S. inexplicably releasing photographs of newly-arrived detainees bound, gagged, blindfolded and on their knees, as part of a PR effort...
And since then, so has America. "When people see a strong horse and a weak horse," he observed, "by nature they will like the strong horse." Here he was indeed prophetic: the mistake was in not knowing which mount was which. In the month since he savored his triumph, the...