Word: withe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Mothers in chadors with their children, old men wearing black shirts customary for the mourning season, young and old, women and men, stood shoulder to shoulder in the cold winter air. The anticipation of Khatami's speech was enough to create a warm buzz such as that of worshipers outside...
"There have been riots in Tabriz," one man related. With its important role in Iran's revolutionary history, news of trouble in Iran's ethnic Azeri heartland is always suppressed by the government. Many also exchanged stories of the day's skirmishes with security forces.
This had been all but forgotten in the camaraderie of the crowd, but women's screams and the fizz and crackle of a stun baton broke the spell. Two dozen Basij thugs had plowed their way through the crowd below and now faced off with the last of the opposition...
They swung out with improvised weapons. Only one had a police baton, another wielded a long metal file he had presumably taken from a toolshed. The most impassioned of the group held a sharpened stick, which he brandished high in the air while he careened about menacingly, seemingly possessed. Later...
A mother shielded her young daughter who sat on the hood of a parked car, tears streaming down her face. Fearful screams came from the women, walled in by the car and the militia men. They pleaded with the protesters not to chant as it was provoking the Basijis to...