Word: simmerings
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...Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority, with Israeli acquiescence, has amassed security forces numbering at least 30,000. Last week they turned their weapons on the Israelis, prompting, for the first time, a head-on clash between the two armies. By week's end, when hostilities had calmed to a simmer, 59 Palestinians and 14 Israelis had been killed and nearly a thousand others injured throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Not since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war had the territories seen such carnage...
...farmers. "He has a very bright future," Gramm said at a lunch at the 1992 G.O.P. convention in Houston. "I have no doubt in my mind, Rick someday is either going to be Governor of our state or a Senator from Texas." Four years later, the scenarios still simmer; Gramm or junior Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison could get a Cabinet post, rekindling Perry's Senate dreams...
...expect populism, once unleashed, to forever avoid its traditional (and, to many minds, logically more compelling) target. Second, Buchanan has turned up the heat. His blame game is more pointed and angry. But if you've been doing your best to keep popular resentments at a high simmer, your indignation is suspect when someone decides to go for a roiling boil...
...Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are more than a year old, now that the O.J. Simpson trial has brought the jurors to the edge of exhaustion, and now, especially, that the end of the trial glimmers on the horizon like some incredible mirage, one might expect the lawyers to simmer down and get on with it. But last week a series of procedural wrangles, surprise rulings and endless bickering proved once again that conventional wisdom never applies in this epic case...
...buzz Gehring created is unlikely to simmer down anytime soon. For master control genes like eyeless, which span the vertebrate and invertebrate worlds, are keys to millions of years of evolution, and scientists are already racing to find more of these revealing snippets...