Word: prowl
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...Omar ever returns, he might find things have changed a bit around the house. First of all, about 40 U.S. special forces have moved in. You won't find them testing the Supreme Leader's mattress. They've set up a forest of radio antennas, and they prowl around in desert camouflague on a rooftop beside the spires of Omar's Arabian rococo mosque. The commandos are here to protect the other new tenant of Omar's house: Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's new prime minister. With wrap-around shades, M-16 rifles, lap-tops, and their MRE's full...
...prowl for all those skeletons in the closet, historical fiction author William Martin ’72 is writing his seventh novel, Harvard Yard, on the history of Harvard. The novel, due to be published in the fall of 2003, is the sequel to Martin’s New York Times Best Seller, Back Bay, which fictionalized the Puritan city’s founding. Reintroducing several of the characters from Back Bay, Harvard Yard will recount the entire history of Harvard, following the book’s main character, Peter Fallon, on a hunt to find a rare and valuable...
Lodged, presumably, somewhere in the canyons and dugouts of an Afghan mountain range, Osama bin Laden waits for the reckoning. If he has heard by now that U.S. special forces are on the prowl, the news was delivered by a courier; Pentagon officials say they have cut off al-Qaeda's ability to communicate by phone. Last week U.S. pilots hit at least one bin Laden deputy: a bombing raid near Jalalabad killed Abu Baseer al-Masri, an Egyptian Islamic militant said to be close to bin Laden's right-hand man, Ayman al-Zawahiri...
When night falls outside the sprawling Kadena Air Force Base in the center of Okinawa, the streets turn into a bacchanalian fest of hard drinking, loud music and raucous, sweaty dancing. American servicemen are on the prowl for liquor and a good time. The local girls, Okinawans and Japanese, come out too, looking for some fun with the buff, dollar-rich and female-deprived American boys. Tattooed guys in muscle shirts and cargo pants rub against women in midriff-baring Tshirts and tight jeans, and as the crowd spills from bars onto sidewalks, the night shifts into hormonal overdrive...
...prefectural building, where Tanaka has his office, two young women desperately try to get a glimpse of the Governor, who is holed up in budget meetings. With a video camera, autograph boards and calligraphy pens, they prowl the halls for four-and-a-half hours, finally catching up to Tanaka eating lunch in the employee cafeteria. What excites them about Tanaka? "It's his intelligence, his perseverance, his warmth," says Ayako Yamada, a housewife who lives a two-hour train ride away. "He is so passionate...