Word: spectacularity
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...This is huge," exults a top U.S. official. Both men are believed to have crucial information about the 9/11 attacks and other spectacular al-Qaeda schemes. More important, authorities believe the men were captured just as they were setting in motion new attacks on the U.S. and its allies. Perhaps most important, they may know where Osama bin Laden is living...
...every now and then, aboard luxury cruise ships plying the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and the Aegean. Seven years ago I went on a South American cruise along the coast of Chile, through the Strait of Magellan and on to Buenos Aires. It was a spectacular voyage in many ways, but I swore it would be my last: the problem was that the aspect of being at sea that interested me the most, the being-at-sea part, was minimized to the point that I almost forgot I was on board a ship. The entertainment was relentless?bridge tournaments, tango lessons...
That didn’t happen—at least not right away. Christian lined a well-hit ball to shallow right, but freshman Lance Salsgiver made a spectacular catch while charging in and managed a relay throw to freshman Mike Dukovich at first that kept the lead run from scoring...
...first doubles, the newly-formed pair of junior co-captain David Lingman and sophomore Jonathan Chu crushed its opponents 8-1 using spectacular volleys and passing shots. The extroverted Lingman and Chu were constantly fired up, interacting vocally with each other and the crowd after their numerous winners...
...been tricked into building the darkers' website and that he didn't know they were a "terrorist organization." "All my life I have had problems with this society," he wrote in his suicide note. "I feel as though I don't belong in this era." He concluded that a spectacular suicide was the only way to get "people to search their consciences and try to lessen the evil they commit every day." After parts of the note were published in the Czech media, Roman Másl read it and "his eyes were glowing when he told me about...