Word: scared
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...English, it is impossible not to understand their hospitality. These hardy nomads are quick to smile?and even quicker to drink. While most ancient Mongol culture has faded away, the greeting of guests with rice whiskey and traditional songs endures. Despite the surrounding desolation, Inner Mongolians manage to scare up impressive quantities of food and drink for visitors. Such feasts are inevitably accompanied by frequent shouts of "gambei!" or "bottoms up!" Rising to the challenge of the toasts is not only good manners, it greatly helps travelers enjoy (or survive) the multiple dishes of mutton and the occasional plate...
...Noted "To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics only aid terrorists." JJOHN ASHCROFT, U.S. Attorney General, defending his expanded emergency powers...
...attorney general’s job is to protect public safety, not the gun lobby. Ashcroft should have told his friends in the NRA what he told the Senate: “To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics only aid terrorists...
...film. The Majestic may not be the season’s most exciting attraction, due to its cardboard cut-out plot, but nonetheless it’s worth a look—Darabont and Carrey together could very well surprise. Think of it as Truman’s Red Scare Show...
...Expect some profit-taking Thursday, for starters. And Friday, the Wall Street that may be starting to take consumer spending for granted will have to endure another (likely garish) rise in the unemployment rate for November - a number which, despite its irrelevance to actual economic progress, can scare the heck out of consumers and has sparked one or two Friday panic-sells in its time. (Like Sept. 7, for instance...