Word: vente
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...their tweezers, searching every corner. On the premises there was a small, walled compound with a mud hut and a metal lean-to. There they found the entrance to the hole, camouflaged with dirt and bricks, with just enough space to lie down, a fan and an air vent. It appears he had been shuttled around in an orange-and-white taxi. U.S. ground-forces commander in Iraq Lieut. General Ricardo Sanchez said Saddam put up no fight, was talkative, cooperating. Says a top White House aide: ?He was very forthcoming about...
Firefighters broke the building’s windows and cut a hole in the roof with a chainsaw to vent smoke as they doused the flames and searched the building...
...brilliant in economy, I have never seen anything like them. He made a humidifier for his bedroom out of a large coffee can, a handkerchief and a wooden rod. The handkerchief, dipped in the water in the bottom of the can, drew moisture up and out; placed near a vent, vapor diffused through the room. His rugged creativity sparked my initial love of science, one that remains with me today—turncoat though I am from math to social studies...
...money and is about to rework its charter--"the BBC is having to justify itself in too many directions at once," says Anthony Smith, president of Magdalen College, Oxford, and a former BBC producer. Commercial media rivals like News Corp, which controls the satellite-TV network Sky, vent that the BBC's subsidy gives it an unfair advantage with which to expand into their territory. "The BBC is probably under more hostile attack than it ever has been in its history," says Steven Barnett, a professor of communications at the University of Westminster...
...kissing after trading vows in Vancouver, Canada, where gay marriage is now legal, and the paper was flooded with angry letters. "It made our stomach 'queasy,' feeling like someone ugly and disgusting broke into our home," wrote Ron and Pat Feit of Cheyenne. Others didn't vent such outright bias but instead expressed hope that the "Don't ask, don't tell" system would last. Said Lisa Ray of Pine Bluffs: "I'd suggest that readers who support your agenda with their hard-earned money place your publication in the same location this subject belongs--a closet...