Word: pawing
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...Evil is a seepage across borders, across great distances. Herman Melville, in Moby Dick, wrote that a colt in rural Vermont, if it smells a fresh buffalo robe (the colt having no knowledge or experience of buffalo, which lived on the plains) will "start, snort, and with bursting eyes paw the ground in phrenzies of affright. Here thou beholdest even in a dumb brute the instinct of the knowledge of the demonism of the world...
...British and French military men couldn't wait to paw over some of the Soviet-supplied Iraqi tanks littering the Kuwaiti desert. They expected the abandoned armor to be a boon for battlefield training and analysis. But many tanks were reduced to smoldering hulks by guided missiles. Others, taken out by A-10 attack planes, at first appear to be in good condition, until survey crews discover a small hole in their exteriors. That hole indicates that shrapnel produced by armor-piercing shells has destroyed everything inside. Although the allies captured thousands of Iraqi tanks, the Americans have found just...
Hoping to equal last year's performance will be junior south-paw Tom Hurley, whose 2.63 ERA is tops among returning pitchers. Other pitchers expected to contribute are last year's save leader junior Peter Rau and classmate Tom Baxter, along with sophomores Tony Lancette, Ray Desrocher, John Donahue and freshman Jeff Mitchell...
...after 2 1/2-year-old Mitchell was left in their care, Shirley and Charles Gates of West Waynesville, N.C., reluctantly set aside their plans to buy a camper and spend their retirement hunting and fishing. "When we first got the baby," says Shirley, "it was really hard on me and Paw-paw." They remain angry at their daughter, who, Shirley says, pays no support and rarely visits. But the Gateses have found their grandson a constant joy and challenge. "It's been worth it," says Shirley, "because Mitchell needed us." The senior Gateses can no longer imagine life without...
...concentrating its fury on one miscreant, the U.S. has sometimes overlooked or even pampered another, potentially greater source of trouble in the same region. The American obsession with Cuba as the Soviet cat's-paw in the Western Hemisphere was one factor that led Washington to support Panama's Manuel Noriega. As an anticommunist, Noriega qualified, in Franklin Roosevelt's famous phrase, as "our son of a bitch." Not until the cold war faded and the war on drugs escalated did Noriega earn his place on the CIA's dart boards and a one-way trip to Miami, where...