Word: tinder
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...over the line and become radical expressions with no meaning behind them. I remember when the police took kids out of University Hall in ’69, it all turned. Everyone felt differently because the police overreacted. But there were many strikes before the flame took to the tinder...
...send the engines to a tinder fire when the jungle to the north is smoldering dangerously? One reason is that Abu Sayyaf is a more squashable threat. Although its Basilan contingent has evaded 6,000 poorly trained Philippine troops for the past year and currently holds two Americans hostage, it's an operation that can be wrapped up in months, rather than years. (A bomb and grenade went off in public areas in the south over the weekend, probably a protest of the U.S. troops' role...
...opportunity to show off her distinctive, back-of-the-throat voice and its impressive power. If only the rest of the album had as much attitude. The transition from the valkyrie voice of the first track where Merchant sings, “Soon come the day / When this tinder box / Is going to blow in your face,” to the domesticated, Mediterranean post-card song, “Motherland,” disorients the listener like holiday jet-lag. Merchant ensconces herself amongst accordions and harmlessly strummed banjos singing, “Motherland, cradle me / Close my eyes...
...Despite the global problems from Europe to Japan to Argentina, this ain't 1997. "The tinder out there is much less" for a major, contagious currency-style meltdown infecting the U.S. at a time when it's much less able to withstand it than four years ago. "The problems we have seen are in one sense, more domestic than international" - and trust me, senators, we're not, nor will be in any imminent future, Japan...
...Cincinnati police were black--in a city that's 57% white. Last month a coalition of civil-rights groups filed suit in federal court, accusing Cincinnati of a "30-year pattern of racial profiling" and excessive force. So the latest shooting--possibly the most egregious yet--put match to tinder. On Monday, Thomas' mother and 200 other protesters left a three-hour meeting at city hall infuriated by all the unanswered questions. The group began shouting at police. Soon, rocks and bottles were flying. At the center square, people hurled garbage cans into the Tyler Davidson Fountain, where locals have...