Word: spun
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...cooperate in the moves; it's hard in the current atmosphere to see how such cooperation could come to pass. If the Israelis attempted to relocate numbers of Palestinians by force, there would be much blood, and for Israel, a catastrophic CNN Effect. Turning out the Palestinians would get spun to the world audience as the Highland Clearances and the Trail of Tears and the Bataan Death and even, grotesquely, as the trains to Auschwitz - a replay, precisely, of the "nakba," the Palestinian "disaster...
...unicorn), a celestial stag and a celestial horse - now identified more prosaically as a giraffe, an oryx and a zebra. Since moving sight unseen to Mombasa in 1992, Li and his family have also taken Africa's natural riches - especially its abundance of rare animals and medicinal herbs - and spun them into treasure. The Lis proudly give me a tour of their traditional Chinese medicine clinic, which is packed with patients. Their purified-water factory is rated one of the cleanest in Kenya. The Lis may have come for personal reasons, but national dreams are built on the shoulders...
...news organization in the country had pounced on the story, while anchors at the cable news networks, drained after weeks of virtually nonexistent news, were practically drooling at the idea of a dramatic break in a dramatic story. All day long, the speculation raged and the three-dimensional graphics spun around our television screens: What would the President do? Would he deny funding altogether? Would he agree to funding with strict limitations...
...Angeles. Then there is the Center for a New American Dream, a Takoma Park, Md., group whose motto is "More fun, less stuff!" Says director Betsy Taylor: "This isn't just about unspoiling kids. It's about reclaiming our kids from a toxic commercial culture that has spun out of control...
...BULL SHARK When Dawn Schauman was attacked by an 8-to-10-ft. bull shark in October 1993, she said, "it felt like a truck had slammed into me, then I felt a compacting squeeze and an acute burning in my left hand and my left leg." The shark spun her around, leaving her disoriented as she hemorrhaged blood into the water. The shark left, and willpower alone got Schauman--6 1/2 months pregnant--back to shore. Her baby was later born prematurely but safely. For months Schauman woke at 3 a.m. replaying the attack in her head...