Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...makan enters politics, its genius makes language a reality superior to the deed -- even renders the facts of the objective world unnecessary and graceless. The vivid hallucination becomes the act: the prophecy is more satisfying than its literal fulfillment. If the demagogue-bard says the infidel will swim in his own blood, then words have pre-empted the work of armies. Ambiguity has an ancient history in the West, but the Middle East has its special genius for mirage. There, the dreariest, basest impulses go dressed up in poetry. Aggressive greed may swagger around as jihad. "Arab dignity and honor...
Indeed, the most common duos seem to be couples who work, dance, swim, legislate, protest or pray together in an 'official' capacity. In so many ways, these couples challenge the old notion that opposites attract...
...keep the ocean healthy," says Manire. Some biologists believe the rise in stingrays off the Florida panhandle may be a by-product of the shark's decline. Thus an ocean without sharks might be a safer place for humans, but it might not be a very nice place to swim...
...Exocet missile in 1987, could attack allied ships in the gulf with either air-launched or sea-launched Exocets. They would do little damage to a battleship or cruiser but could cause havoc on a destroyer or frigate. It is also possible that Iraqi frogmen might try to swim in and plant mines in Saudi ports or oil facilities...
...caught on being a little too tentative in the first half of our races," Bernal said. "When we take out the tentative part out of their races, they'll swim even better times...