Word: thinning
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...banging loose sheets of metal blown off shop fronts by the force of the exploding bombs. Other than the few Hizballah men who dart between the rubble, the only other signs of life are the packs of scrawny dogs who lope down the street and a pair of thin horses standing forlornly in the shade of a gas station waiting patiently, it seems, for a master who may never return...
...Wiretapping Ruling Is Vulnerable Even opponents of President Bush's surveillance program have to be dismayed by Judge Taylor's thin legal reasoning
...lettuce was clean; the shrimp were well seasoned and not overcooked; and the dressing wasn't too heavy. I didn't care for the Bourbon Street steak, but I ate most of a "Veggie Patch Pizza" even though it dishonored the very idea of pizza since the "ultra-thin" crust turned out to be a tortilla. I went back to the Jamestown Applebee's even after I had what I needed for this piece...
...little finger for anyone in the Bush Hall crowd that didn't get the subtlety of the title. In real life she can be just as harsh. She's slammed U.S. girl group the Pussycat Dolls and former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham for "promoting womanizing" and being too thin, respectively. Not that she intends to play by anyone else's rules. "If people want to think of me as a role model, then that's up to them," she says. "I'm not going to change myself for anyone," she adds with another giggle. And as long as they keep...
...guerrillas. He said that the hospital has received 196 casualties, including 25 dead. "We don't need democracy," he says. "We just want to live." The basement of the hospital is packed with casualties and their anxious relatives who have fled their homes from neighboring villages to sleep on thin mattresses in the corridors...