Word: swirling
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...that I've had so many perfect eggs and unfrozen my past so happily, I'm thinking about doing some poaching myself. Not with a thermometer but with the old swirl-the-vinegared-water technique my grandmother used. Then I'll pop the eggs on some asparagus, or a piece of salmon, and think about her. Or pretend to, while I really think about the salmon...
...midnight stroke at your New Year's Eve party, between champagne swigs and kisses, you might have glanced at the TV image of Times Square: a million people celebrating in a neon-illuminated swirl of confetti, as if God had sent a pretty blizzard right...
...Ramadi to the base hospital. "Jesus f---ing Christ!" the soldier yelled, falling to his knees. A second later several soldiers and Marines from Camp Ramadi were also kneeling with their arms around him as he cried. They stayed on the ground for a while, huddled together in the swirl of dust kicked up by the vehicles that had come throughout the day bearing other American and Iraqi casualties from violence in Ramadi...
...death as a murder, Scotland Yard antiterrorism officers have been combing sites all over London, while colleagues traveled to Moscow. "This continues to be an extremely complex investigation, and detectives are pursuing many lines of inquiry," said a police spokeswoman. Litvinenko's excruciating and sinister death and the swirl of international politics around it make this a case worthy of John le Carré, but as the police insist, the classic questions of any murder inquiry still apply: Scotland Yard, in short, is looking for motive, means and opportunity...
...light of the debates that continue to swirl both in Tehran and Washington over whether to talk to each other, it may not have been the last...