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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...course the imbroglio over the Bush Administration's failure to find the evidence to back its scary prewar claims about the threat to America supposedly posed by Saddam Hussein has not yet reached the point of critical mass that would leave editors scratching their heads over just what noun to put before that suffix - Iraq-gate? Saddam-gate? War-gate? What is already marking the current unraveling as different from any that have gone before is its transatlantic dimension: President Bush, for example, invoked British government findings to underscore the authority of his claims against Saddam - most unfortunately...
...shocked and disappointed with the way we played game one,” Walsh said. “Use any noun or verb you want—we were terrible...
...goes upstairs to take a pre-show nap. I pass out on a chair for 45 minutes and have a strange dream in which an unknown man asks me if I’m enjoying the “fierce.” “Fierce as noun?” I ask him, confused. He looks surprised at my ignorance: “Fear + fare = a fierce...
...Koranic version of Abraham's ultimate test, Abraham tells his son of God's command, and the boy replies, "O my father! Do that which thou art commanded. Allah willing, thou shalt find me of the steadfast." Notes the Koran approvingly: "They had both surrendered," using the verb whose noun form is the word Islam. For passing such trials, Allah tells Abraham, "Lo, I have appointed thee a leader for mankind...
...reinvented itself from a corps of 'generalists,' trained in law and accounting, into a confrontational 'Special Weapons and Tactics' (aka SWAT) Green Beret-style army of warriors who like to dress up in camouflage or black ninja clothing and, depending on the caper, ski masks." Note the penultimate noun in that sentence: in Vidal's account, it's those who job it is to fight crime who are the criminals, and who pull the "capers...