Word: paint
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...Actually, I put two fortune cookies in the bag, still wrapped. Truthfully, they were something I knew I could give away and not mind not getting back. And my sister used to paint fortune cookies, so she would approve...
...orchid that had fallen...I also squeezed out two different colors of paint from tubes that were lying on my desk close by, that I thought would make the most visually stimulating point...I also do Chinese watercolor painting, so that’s where I got the idea...
...suspect writers like Krugman understand the Republican rationale even if they disagree with it. But why bother admitting that the enemies on your political hit list have reasons to think the way they do? It’s a lot more fun (and a whole lot more frightening) to paint them as mindless partisan zombies. Still, you’d think that when Republicans and Democrats come up with a bad idea together they’d share the blame, right...
...described a chaotic collapse, in which many Taliban commanders and troops simply fled their positions, leaving the more ideologically-motivated Pakistani, Arab and Chechen volunteers to fight and die - some of them reportedly after surrendering. Indeed, Western audiences may wince a little as firsthand tales from the battle front paint many of the proxy warriors of the Northern Alliance as no less brutal than their Talib enemies. But in Afghanistan, neither locals nor foreigners have ever fought by the Queensberry rules...
...There is a supreme irony at work here, of course: Al Qaeda regard Arafat as an apostate, and Al Zawahiri would sooner amputate his own hand rather than shake that of the Palestinian leader. No matter, this is a propaganda war and Bin Laden's men are determined to paint themselves as universal spokesmen for widely held Arab grievances...