Word: peel
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...mosque. Buxton turns around. "Are there any casualties?" he asks. "Yes! Yes!" replies Beverly. Shrapnel has hit him in the right hand and right knee. Two of his front teeth have been knocked out, and his tongue is lacerated. "Let's go!" he says. "Let's go!" The humvees peel out and roar for home...
Most of us can recall years when we thought we were too hip for the holidays. It starts with that downward look I see on my face in the photograph. But if life and years peel things away, they can also return to us the things we have shunned--the willingness to believe in things we can feel but cannot see. When I was very young, I used to sit in the living room as Christmas night came to an end, looking at the tree, the lights, the mess of toys and wrappings, and I would feel a sadness drift...
Most families, at some point in time, come across photographs they had forgotten about. Someone opens a drawer or a box, pulls out an album that had been gathering dust. And images from the past--memories of holidays, vacations--peel back the years' shadows. If you're part of a public family, there is a good chance such photographs might emerge on eBay. That's what happened to us. My mother, who does not own a computer, was informed that a large number of family pictures were being offered on eBay. She authorized the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (where there...
...punt block on during a scrimmage in the spring,” Harvey recalls, “and Brian still wouldn’t call for a fair catch. We had to stop practice for 45 seconds just to peel the 10 guys...
...like a Chinese menu," says a Latin diplomat involved in the negotiations. The U.S. is especially opposed to such "flexibility," seeing it as an excuse for Brazil and China to perpetuate rampant piracy. Hence all the pre-Miami drama. After the Cancún shock, the U.S. rushed to peel off some of the 14 G-22 members in Latin America. The region does almost half its foreign trade with the U.S. - and Brazilian officials say they suspect the U.S. of threatening smaller Latin nations, which need U.S. aid and access to its $10.5 trillion market. The U.S. denies that...