Word: leanings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...secrets, the soldiers knew to scrape the paint off the walls in the event he was hiding behind them. So they cordoned off the area and took out their tweezers, searching every corner. On the premises there was a small, walled compound with a mud hut and a metal lean-to. There they found the entrance to the hole, camouflaged with dirt and bricks, with just enough space to lie down, a fan and an air vent. It appears he had been shuttled around in an orange-and-white taxi. U.S. ground-forces commander in Iraq Lieut. General Ricardo Sanchez...
...Inside, a few steps from the hole, the living quarters were in post-search disarray. A bedroom had two bed frames and mattresses, a trunk full of books and clothing, a small refrigerator, and two posters, one of a landscape, the other depicting Noah's Ark. In an adjoining lean-to that served that served as a kitchen, candy bars and dirty dishes lay on a table in front of a smeared mirror. A portion of the floor was covered with broken eggshells...
...will get him to Libya. At a corner table in the dimly lit café, Abdi Salan listens intently to the local man, who speaks Arabic in a faint voice. (Abdi Salan's native tongue is Somali, but he understands enough Arabic to get by.) The man is tall, lean and dark, wearing a flowing white Arab robe and headdress. He is flanked by a pair of shorter, younger subordinates in Western clothes. The smugglers agree to help Abdi Salan cross the Sahara to Libya, where he hopes to board a boat to Europe. Up until this point, his journey...
...years an economic lifeline. A grocer by profession, Hlavácek went into the meat business in 1991 at the exact same spot where, four decades earlier, Czechoslovakia's communists confiscated his grandfather's meat shop. His headcheese became a sought-after delicacy, praised for being uniquely ungreasy and lean (one secret: he uses pork knees). Then about six years ago, business started to flag. Supermarket chains, able to command lower purchasing prices from suppliers, squeezed Hlavácek's profits by selling at big discounts. So Hlavácek, now 51 and employing 10, tried to counter the only...
...secrets, the soldiers knew to scrape the paint off the walls in the event he was hiding behind them. So they cordoned off the area and took out their tweezers, searching every corner. On the premises there was a small, walled compound with a mud hut and a metal lean-to. There they found the entrance to the hole, camouflaged with dirt and bricks, with just enough space to lie down, a fan and an air vent. It appears he had been shuttled around in an orange-and-white taxi. U.S. ground-forces commander in Iraq Lieut. General Ricardo Sanchez...