Word: slung
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...coffee and smoking cigarettes, denies it all. "We've never been drug traffickers," he insists. And like other AUC leaders, he vows the group will never give up its wealth or submit to prosecution in the U.S. "We'll defend our freedom to the death," he says, a pistol slung from his hip. He leans back in a rawhide chair and calls his pet jaguar. "I don't like to keep her in a cage," he says as rifle-toting AUC soldiers in battle fatigues look on, amused. The AUC, whose top commanders are finally expected to arrive for peace...
...Washington, D.C. The space-launch license, which was given to a California company headed by aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan, represents "a big step" toward space tourism, said FAA spokesman Henry Price. Rutan's craft, dubbed SpaceShipOne, was successfully tested on Dec. 17 last year. It reaches high altitudes slung beneath the belly of White Knight, an ungainly jet aircraft, before being launched into space. The craft is competing for the $10 million "X Prize" for the first private team to send three humans to an altitude of 100 kilometers twice within two weeks. "If we are successful, our program will...
George W. Bush's most memorable day as President was Sept. 14, 2001, when he stood in the rubble of the World Trade Center, holding a bullhorn in one hand, his other arm slung over the shoulder of a veteran fire fighter from central casting. Bush was pitch perfect that day--the common-man President, engaged and resolute. This is the image the Bush campaign is probably saving for the last, emotional moments of the election next fall. It is the memory the Republicans want you to carry into the voting booth. It is why the Republican Convention will...
...exhibit, an unpopularity amongst undergraduates so decimating that it has a post-apocalyptic feeling. But I love Hilles— the way it looms, bright-lit, above you suddenly as you leave Garden Street, its layered staircases as complex as those in an Escher engraving; the way the low-slung Scandinavian Modern chairs bear mismatched cushions, piled in quixotic efforts to render them more comfortable; the way that you can claim entire floors for yourself—an impossibility in densely-peopled Lamont. I love that someone had a modernist vision so complete that the furnishings and even stacks echo...
...belts. "There is a trend now of classic feminine dressing, and the high-waisted pant falls into that category," says Eileen McMaster, vice president of corporate communication for Anne Klein, whose waistlines began to rise in its fall 2003 offerings. And although many designers are still embracing the low-slung-pant look, perhaps we can finally start to envision a world without butt cleavage...