Word: unexpectedness
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But the rescue was precipitated by a small, unexpected act of impatience. After three days locked in the stuffy, smelly auditorium, an agitated young male hostage had had enough. According to one account, he threw a bottle at some of his Chechen captors and ran toward them. A gunman opened...
By Russian standards, the rescue operation was an unexpected success. Putin made the most of it, donning a white doctor's coat to visit freed hostages at a Moscow hospital. Yet for all the claims of victory Saturday, top Kremlin leaders must face up to the security failures that let...
Written with a mix of phonetic Hokkien dialect and English, Shiga creates a fascinating and little-seen world. In both content and artwork Shiga emulates the style of Lat, a cartoonist with a Charles Shultz-level reputation in South East Asia. Having only started cartooning in 1995, Shiga has an...
“Zen Buddhism” is quite possibly the most unexpected phrase to roll off the tongue of any hockey player. But Harvard captain Dominic Moore, who looks to lead the Crimson deep into the NCAA tournament this year, describes his approach to hockey in terms of this...
The aesthetics of the church complement the dance in unexpected ways. The stained glass filters the waning light and by 6 p.m. the church is awash in a peach and cobalt glow. As twilight approaches, the dancer’s bending shadows are cast on the church’s...