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...force managed to destroy most of Hizballah's arsenal of long-range missiles, capable of reaching Tel Aviv, in the opening salvos of the conflict. Back then, it seemed only a matter of days, or hours, before an Israeli smart-bomb would find its way to the lair of Hizballah chief Hassan Nasrallah. That possibility now seems a longshot...
...frequent guest. He once served as a federal cabinet minister?and later spent years in jail for insurrection. His band of men move between mountain hideouts, sleeping in caves. Bugti says he uses "a rock for my pillow." Reached through a satellite phone by Time in his mountain lair, Bugti spoke of how he deals with pain (he is partially paralyzed in one leg), temperatures of 45?C, and the perils of waging a guerrilla war against 26,000 Pakistani soldiers in Baluchistan: "Physical hardship?pain, the extreme heat?this is all a state of mind. You either give into...
...Princess Moanna. He tells her she will reach her destiny - will "stroll through the seven circular gardens of your palace" - if she can accomplish three difficult tasks. One is to get a key that the toad has swallowed. The second: use that key to unlock a door in the lair of the Pale Man, a child-devourer who has eyeballs in his hands. And the third...
Marc Jacobs' VIPs happily descend the narrow staircase at the back of the SoHo store and weave through the racks of cashmere and lace, past the shoe-lined shelves, until they get to Rich's lair. "It's the most cool, laid-back place in New York," says Lisa Airan, a Manhattan dermatologist who is a regular on the city's society pages. "You can run down and sit in the office and have an Evian...
...11th of September). It's more audacious still that the Wachowskis, rather than scrubbing their script clean of 9/11 references, would emphasize the connection, proposing a dapper quasi-hero who is part Zorro (with the fancy swordplay), part Phantom of the Opera (but with a jukebox in his underground lair instead of a pipe organ) and just a smidge of Osama bin Laden (but with tastes more aesthetic than ascetic...