Word: pow
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...sudden there was a 'Pow, pow, pow,'" said councilwoman Gale Brewer, who was sitting at the back of the crowded chamber. "I dove under my desk ... [then] one of my colleagues grabbed my hand and said, 'Run.'" Community groups receiving ceremonial tributes from the council were caught in the chaos, including some young children affiliated with a local Puerto Rican community group. "The little girls... were hysterical," said Debbie Almontaser, whose organization Women in Islam was also being honored. "They were crying, they were very upset." Almontaser, who had taken refuge in a nearby bathroom with two of the girls...
...Come The karate master, a mean-looking dude with a Fu Manchu mustache, attacks me from the left. I knock him out with a swift kick to the stomach. Kazaaam! He comes back at me from the right, so I retaliate with a masterful chop to the chin. Pow! This fight sequence is playing out on my TV screen, but it's really me in the picture. Thanks to EyeToy, Sony's latest advance on the computer game, anyone can be an action hero. Launched in the U.K. last week and due across Europe this summer, EyeToy is a PlayStation...
...this point, the two of us had learned to pay close attention during Walsh postgame pow-wows because the man was a gem of a quote waiting to happen. His commentary alternated between the hilarious (he once complained about Harvard parents “clawing at you, trying to shove chocolate chip cookies down your face” between games in Ivy League doubleheaders), the profound (an emotional reflection on outfielder Joe Llanes’ battle with testicular cancer) and the sublimely hackneyed (Walsh’s references to the “baseball gods” were heartfelt enough...
...leave from his unit in Iraq was arrested for allegedly taking photos of other soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners of war. Workers at a Tamworth photo shop called police when the soldier took the film to be developed. The Sun newspaper said the pictures showed a bound and gagged Iraqi POW dangling from a forklift truck. The army has launched an inquiry into the incident which...
...believe the real hero in the ordeal of POW Jessica Lynch [WITH THE TROOPS, April 14] is Mohammed, the Iraqi lawyer who walked approximately 36 miles over two days to bring information to the Marines about a young woman being held in a hospital. Of course, Lynch underwent a horrendous experience; I cannot imagine the terror that went through that young woman's mind. Labeling her a hero, however, is a misuse of the word. The Iraqi lawyer who put his life on the line to make the rescue possible is unquestionably the true hero in this terrible saga. Lynch...