Word: skirring
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...storyline that fans hold sacrosanct. Writer Robert Skir's decision to create a darker, organic Cybertron for the 1999 CGI television series _Beast Machines: Transformers_ won him few popularity points with the fandom. Skir's actions earned him numerous death threats, and incited more hate than a thousand Bin Laden speeches. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the latest incarnation of the series has abandoned any pretense of a maturity and delivers bland, insipid episodes aimed at pre-schoolers who like their primary colors with a dash of Energon...
...years under the relatively benign leadership of Premier Ferhat Abbas, 61, an ex-druggist who speaks better French than Arabic and has a middle-class habit of falling asleep after a good dinner, control shifted to a clutch of hard-eyed terrorists who had survived street battles and mountain skir mishes in the seven-year war against the French...
...Canada in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries, the northern end of Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island looked like home. They searched no farther. To Cape Breton's coves, its evergreen hills and misty glens, they transplanted names like Beinn Bhreagh. Lochaber, Tantallon and Skir Dhu. The Macdonalds, MacIntoshes, MacLeods, and members of many another Scottish clan settled down to raise sheep, fish for cod and till the soil...
...will be no more than the final piece of irony in League history if the thwarting of the French wish for security succeeds in averting European war. At the moment no other outcome of the skir-mish at London seems likely. Less than two weeks ago Flandin journeyed across the Channel demanding nothing less than war on Germany to remove the troops from the Rhineland. Since that stormy day, crushed by elephantine proctocol and the reluctance of Britain to see beyond her nose, France has recognized the hopelessness of her position. The Neutral Zone plan was foisted upon French statesmen...
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