Word: residuum
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...Hamas claim, which seems basically sound to me, is that Israel was mainly responsible for its ending: Hamas suppressed almost, but not all rocket fire; Israel retaliated for the residuum by refusing to open the borders, so that Gazan misery continued unabated or worsened, and then carried out an armed incursion in November 2008. When Hamas refused to renew the truce and recommenced rocket fire, Israel invaded...
There were also differences with his professional colleagues in Greenwich. Dr. Squier was getting near the end of his story. "I have no objection to its being known that my death is voluntary," he wrote, "and I desire cremation as simply and quickly as possible, with no residuum anywhere." With a final flourish of professional courtesy, he added: "For the information of the medical examiner, I have taken Nembutal and Seconal...
...contiguous to," but "be next to"; adventurous is not "prone to embark on hazardous enterprises," but "ready to take risks"; shake is not "to be agitated with irregular vibratory motion," but to "move quickly backwards and forwards, up and down, or from side to side"; remainder is not "residue; residuum; remnant," but "the part left over...
...poems describe people. Critics have called him a pessimist, but he insists that he really takes a bright view of human nature. He says that although his poems depict suffering and failure, they nevertheless are full of genial appreciation of the game of life. "Human beings have a moral residuum that makes them worthwhile, even though, like the pitchblende from which radium is extracted, they appear pretty worthless at times...
...Residuum: "Action." What would the U.S. do under an Atlantic pact, he had asked, if Russia should attack Norway? Secretary of State Acheson was polite but unequivocal, as he explained that only the U.S. Congress could declare...