Word: nai
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...after the seventh or eighth tumbler of rice whiskey that the tears began to flow. Nai Tong, the weather-beaten, gold-toothed village chief, blinked hard, splashed the whiskey jug around and raised his glass. "Welcome to Sipsongpanna, daughter of the Dai. Welcome home." It was a magic moment and the culmination of an emotion-charged journey for my wife, Sawitree. She is the first of her large northern Thai family to travel back to the land of her ancestors, the Dai people, who inhabit the southern tip of China's Yunnan province. The region is now known as Xishuangbanna...
...King, and fired at them again, at point-blank range, and then targeted his sister Shruti as she bent over her injured husband. The final time, he left and returned to pump bullets into those he had already shot. Then Dipendra turned his gun toward Paras. His cousin shouted, "Nai, Dai! Nai Dai! (No, Brother! No, Brother!)" He didn't fire. The bodies of his mother and brother Nirajan were found outside in the garden. None of the witnesses saw their or Dipendra's own demise. Maheshwar heard the sound of a gun, perhaps a revolver, from the garden...
...fist of hemp rubbed in ground glass. Nevertheless, tournaments are tolerated, partly because Muay Thai has a place in the country's history. Siamese soldiers perfected the martial art in the 16th century, and Thais have been flooring Burmese since as long ago as the 18th century, when soldier Nai Khanom won his freedom from captors by defeating 12 top Burmese fighters. To this day, many Thais ascribe their status as the sole unconquered Asian nation to Muay Thai...
...When it reaches a certain crescendo, you know it," observes Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, who fired off a letter to Lieberman calling his remarks "inappropriate" and "unsettling." But the vice-presidential nominee was just getting started. He praised the Democrats' prescription-drug plan as a way to keep the Fifth Commandment to honor thy father and mother, likened Al Gore to Joseph for shepherding the surplus to prepare for lean years ahead, and cast Clinton as Moses for parting the Red Sea with his economic program. The latest battle over the appropriate...
...religion belongs in the political campaign and the political arena," Foxman told the New York Times. "There's nothing wrong with somebody professing their faith and going to church or synagoue, but this is almost hawking it." So what about this, from Bush in Washington Monday at a B'nai B'rith convention (of which the ADL is a division)? "Our nation is chosen by God and commissioned by history to be a model to the world of justice and inclusion and diversity without division. Jews and Christians and Muslims speak as one in their commitment to a kind, just...