Word: stream
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...land was made for you and me (and little Leaf). Somewhere in the same part of my brain that enjoys watching Snow White sing “Someday My Prince Will Come,” there was a fleeting desire to romp through calf-high wild grass and drink stream water, dressed, of course, in the trendiest, worn brown leather boots and soft pastel peasant...
...mention Saudi Arabia, bin Laden's homeland. But Saudi citizens have obviously supported al-Qaeda with money, men and serious theological underpinnings. Saudi Arabia is a vast country in which local tribal leaders can be wooed and bought, as in Afghanistan. In Saudi Arabia, where a constant stream of tens of thousands of foreigners from all over the world legitimately makes pilgrimages to Mecca, foreign Arab terrorists don't stick out. Would a relatively weak Saudi government crack down on a rich, highly organized and entrenched terrorist group staunchly supported by the Saudi people? And would the U.S. strike...
...done it again, fallen into the trap of sarcasm. Of course, the response from many athletes was an unrelenting stream of expletives and ill will (there were some nice responses too, from both athletes and civilians). Though I thought I had been clear about my conclusion—that athletes, like the rest of us, deserve to be here—I had made the mistake of using sarcasm earlier in the column. This sarcasm had poisoned any earnestness I later tried to employ...
...animals and livestock; its spores can live in soil for decades. Stevens was an avid outdoorsman, so maybe he picked up a few spores in the wild--perhaps, as Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson famously suggested at a press conference, from drinking water out of a stream...
...obsessed Bush regulatory chief John D. Graham can take care of the calculations, and together they push the dirtiest industries to clean up out of self-interest and put market forces to work for cleaner technologies. Not to mention bring the EPA - and the government - a whole new revenue stream...