Word: reared
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...another car, the rear end so loaded it was almost dragging the ground, Yussif Ashour of Chacra, his brother and four women in the back competed for space with family artifacts, foam mattresses bound with twine and stuffed in the trunk and a very tired-looking taxi driver. But it wasn't clear what his family was returning to. "They say 80% of our village has been destroyed," Ashour said...
...Perhaps Myers' sign should be bigger, maybe even in neon, since what he is farming is every bit as fantastical as the surrounds. Follow the driveway to the rear of his otherwise ordinary house, and the mountains form a natural amphitheater around what is pure show business. As a sign hanging by the door of an enormous shed reads: GNOME FARM, SOUND HORN FOR SERVICE. Spilling out from the shed is a chorus of concrete creatures which Myers makes, repairs and sells to the public. He characterizes the latter as "licorice all-sorts-anyone who doesn't understand what...
...incursions across the border, using tanks to advance around villages at night before withdrawing during the day. In some places Israeli forces have established toeholds across the border and in others maintain forward positions two or three miles inside Lebanese territory, but without necessarily securing the territory to their rear. "I think the Israelis perhaps underestimated the strength of the Hizballah positions," General Alain Pellegrini, the commander of UNIFIL told TIME in an interview at his headquarters in Naqoura. "I think they would have hoped for quicker progress...
...talk of how to balance faith with the politics of aiding Islamic militant groups. Mehdi Sedaghat, 27, a clothing-store clerk, speaks between bites of his bologna sandwich. "It's our religious duty to aid Muslims who are being killed," says Sedaghat, whose car bears a sticker on the rear window that reads INSURED BY IMAM REZA (Shi'ite Islam's revered figure). "But reality is reality, and we can't afford it." He quotes a Persian proverb: "If the lantern is needed at home, donating it to the mosque is haram [forbidden...
...friend heading into the country. The delay turned out to be a godsend. When Ali started the car again, it was to flee the bombs hitting the main road on our right. We sped away with the other cars, and I watched people running away on foot from the rear window as Ali reminded me to praise God for our safety...