Word: wings
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...sometimes Gabriel's lyrics betray his inexperience at writing love songs. Bad rhyme abounds. In "Secret World," Gabriel sings, "Seeing things that were not there/ On a wing, on a prayer/ In this state of disrepair." Us exhibits the same flaws as U2's generally slick Achtung Baby, lyrics suffer when the Irish protest band recorded a dance-rock album...
...official position of the Bush campaign is that Bush opposes abortion "except when the life of the mother is threatened or when rape or incest is involved." While not quite as inflexible as the Republican platform position, Bush has unmistakably placed himself on the right-wing of the abortion debate...
...Roberts,a political movie released in the heat of a presidential election year, entices and entrances the viewer as it skewers the senatorial candidacy of its title character, a right-wing folksinger and fencing enthusiast...
Senior forward Juan Betancourt caught the drooping Lions' defense off-guard with a quick throw-in to Wojik, who dribbled down the right wing and centered into the box, where sophomore Derek Swaim latched onto the cross. His shot was awkwardly struck, but hit well enough to sneak through the legs of Feuerborn for the tying goal...
...later Qumran scrolls were written by a messianic movement that blended into early Christianity. He thinks the teacher was James, the New Testament "brother of Jesus" and martyred leader of the Jerusalem church. James' Qumran faction, says Eisenman, was "aggressive, apocalyptic, nationalist, messianic and violent. Very violent." This wing bitterly opposed the Apostle Paul and his Hellenized movement, which rejected Jewish law and was "otherworldly, cosmopolitan, forgiving...