Word: spearing
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...body that tells the story of two decades of war and suffering. On his left arm is a map of East Timor in the grip of a fist; on his right arm and across his chest tumble rough tattoos of a sacred bird, a Bible and crucifix, and a spear. In many places scars show through the faded images, souvenirs of countless battles in the bush. Four years after the end of the war against Indonesia's occupation, this former guerrilla fighter has no job and little sense of purpose. He wonders what there is for him and his comrades...
...basically have a hopeless case here for affordable housing,” said Richard Peiser, Spear professor of real estate development at the Graduate School of Design...
...Scotland," he says. Now his courses are booked months in advance. Nairn is only one of the chefs updating the image of Scottish cookery. In a converted crofter's cottage on the Isle of Skye - a ruggedly beautiful island just off Scotland's west coast - a chef named Shirley Spear is turning out food that takes full advantage of the area's extraordinary produce. Spear's restaurant-with-rooms, The Three Chimneys, was acclaimed as one of the world's 50 best restaurants earlier this year by Restaurant magazine. It could certainly qualify as one of the 50 most-difficult...
...forward to the present and I find myself near the end of training and only a few short months from being assigned to my first fleet squadron. The F/A-18 Hornet I fly and I are about to become part of the tip of the U.S. military’s spear. And while the tactical air mission in Afghanistan is all but complete, it is still a good bet that carrier-based Navy jets will have a role in whatever military action is required for the next phase of the War on Terrorism—be it in Iraq or somewhere...
...asks. She felt revulsion at the U.S. air strikes, which left hundreds of Afghans dead and thousands more wounded. One of Sana's classmates, Naomi Jamal, told how her mother, a doctor, had tended an Afghan woman in labor who had a piece of shrapnel the size of a spear tip lodged in her neck from an exploding U.S. bomb. The doctor was able to save the mother but not her newborn baby...