Word: stilettoed
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...found no good place for the British buck to stop. "No single individual was to blame," he said. "There was no deliberate attempt on the part of the government to mislead ? It was a weakness on the part of all those who were involved." Nevertheless, though he prefers the stiletto to the sledgehammer, Butler did chronicle a damning parade of errors. It turns out that three of five British agents in Iraq whose reports helped convince London that Saddam was amassing a WMD stockpile were frauds, or mistaken. Because Saddam was such a serial liar, analysts repeatedly assumed the worst...
...Seth walked a little bit in front of me and Emily, and Kim was behind us,” Long said. “Emily and I were walking in the street because our stiletto heels were getting stuck in the cobblestones. We were talking and laughing...
...well as design and quality, I really work on the comfort of a heel," says Mellon, who is never seen in less than a 4-in. stiletto. Though she is credited with generating a glamorous global image for the little-known brand, Mellon says she still feels she faces chauvinism on the business side. "It shouldn't be a man's world. They may wear the trousers, but they don't wear the heels," she says...
...Pentagon choose to alienate major allies just now? Why didn't the Administration use a stiletto rather than a bludgeon, quietly handing out prime contracts to its friends without yelling about it? As always, you can explain things as a conspiracy or a screwup. In the first view, the memo is the latest proof that the Pentagon is running its own foreign policy and simply doesn't care whether it ticks off people in foreign capitals--in fact, rather enjoys doing so. Maybe I've got a case of seasonal goodwill, but I doubt that things are so crass...
...Scheib, the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s (HRDC) current visiting director, knew that Lorenzaccio had to be a period piece, using dingy Chinese restaurants, pineapple bras and stiletto heels as emblems of the current time period...