Word: raucus
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...capital of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a separatist group that has waged a 25-year struggle for an independent Tamil homeland. After a triumphant speech by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, a handful of men danced in the streets, as a drummer pounded out one of the island's raucus baila beats...
...that our way of life was attacked on September 11. What we mean is that our words were attacked - our sauntering, freewheeling, raucus, stumbling, unbridled, unregulated, unorthosox words. All that we are in this country came out of words - 18th century words, 19th century words - which in turn wend their way back into a past that existed long before the first sentence of the Book of John. Every word is a new idea, and there is nothing like a new idea to counteract the stony madness of fanatics. If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually...