Word: reloadable
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Quetta's Ishnam Asheri mosque, the worst act of its kind since the mid-'90s, was horrifying even by South Asia's gruesome standards. Thousands of worshipers were performing their Friday prayers when two gunmen burst in and fired into the crowd for 10 minutes, pausing only to reload. Outside the mosque, a third man, wired with explosives, walked into a cluster of worshipers and blew himself up. By the time police dispatched the gunmen, 47 people were dead and 65 wounded. Police defused two more bombs that could have killed hundreds more. Suspicion quickly fell on an offshoot...
...ahead, the war machine was undeterred, as evidenced by the various units rolling across the desert, preparing to deliver the ultimate blow to the Iraqi regime. While each day that the war drags on gives the Iraqis a chance to regroup, it also grants allied forces the opportunity to reload. As the 3rd Infantry Division made its way past Nasiriyah, a long column of the 101st Airborne Division barreled out of Kuwait into the desert on a parallel track, crossing the marshes and heading toward Baghdad. Scores of Harriers and A-10 Warthogs took off from bases in Qatar, Kuwait...
...prompted a worried Nihon University College of Art professor to land him a job at a local TV production company. He lasted two weeks. "Then I dropped out." He spent the next eight years wandering between Asian hotspots, touching down in Tokyo to reboot on new DAT technology and reload on yen and then blasting off again for the white label Gulf of Siam islands or Arabian Sea coast...
...players on defense from a year ago,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “There aren’t that many teams, outside of the University of Miami, that can lose 60 percent of their all-League players off of a championship defense and simply reload...
...roommates dejectedly return to Quincy to reload on beverages. The sixth floor seems to be a haven of opportunity, with two smaller parties happening a few doorways apart. A fresh keg stands in one room and gangs of thirsty undergrads do not obstruct access to its contents. Houlihan is prodded into participating in the most popular of keg acrobatics—the stand. Ferrante feels obliged to match the feat, though more beer drips out of his mouth than is actually swallowed. A little after 1 a.m. the activity begins to wind down and a group of first-year women?...