Word: mounting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...even sillier. It defines an “assault rifle” as any semi-automatic rifle with a detachable magazine and at least two of: “a folding or telescoping stock; a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon; a bayonet mount; a flash suppressor or threaded barrel designed to accommodate a flash suppressor; and a grenade launcher...
...judge refused to admit evidence backing his claim. Idema was sentenced to 10 years in jail. Two associates also received prison sentences. DIED. PATRIARCH PETROS VII OF ALEXANDRIA, 55, leader of the Greek Orthodox Church in Africa; with 16 others when their helicopter crashed on the way to Mount Athos, a community of monasteries in northeastern Greece; in the Aegean Sea. Since becoming Patriarch in 1997, Petros helped revive interest in the church, expanding its missions and influence and acting as peace broker between Muslims and Christians in the Middle East and North Africa. DIED. JOHNNY RAMONE, 55, guitarist...
Settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony built Harvard Square in 1630 as the colonial village of Newtown. The irregular pattern of streets formed by Massachusetts Avenue, Mount Auburn Street, Eliot Street and Boylston Street—now JFK Street—continue to frame the layout of the Square. Though a riverbed no longer courses by Eliot Street, and the boîte stores have often made way for larger businesses, Cambridge still breathes of the past. But the intersection of these time-honored streets has become a 20th century cultural phenomenon as well...
...down, failure feeds on itself. Confidence erodes as losses mount. If someone concludes that there’s no point in trying—he might as well be late to class or skip practice, other people will only let him down, no one is interested in an imaginative idea (or whatever his negative thought might be)—then the outcome is foreordained. The self-fulfilling prophecy is fulfilled...
...undeterred. "The land is ours," says Sailudari Masekonte, 32, a Masai herdsman. "We can destroy every single fence on this land." And destroy they do. Though the Masai make claims to vast tracts of southern and central Kenya, the most active dispute has arisen on the western slopes of Mount Kenya, 200 km north of Nairobi. In just over a month, the Masai have ripped up dozens of miles of fencing and driven tens of thousands of cattle onto ranchers' fields. Riot police have chased invaders off the land, and used tear gas and bullets to break up demonstrations...