Word: camelback
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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DURING AFGHAN PRESIDENT HAMID Karzai's first campaign outing two weeks ago, an enemy rocket whizzed by his U.S. military helicopter and slammed into the camelback hills where he was supposed to land. Karzai brushed off the near miss, but his American guardians insisted on returning to Kabul. Half-jokingly, Karzai said, "I'm an Afghan, and I promise I'll take my revenge." Sure enough, the next day, Karzai slipped past his American protectors and, with two baffled Afghan bodyguards in tow, commandeered a driver to take him to a Kabul bazaar. The President wanted to buy a pomegranate...
Last fall, in southern Iraq, a Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) official approached Maurice (Termite) Watkins, 47, at breakfast. Watkins, a professional boxer turned pest-control contractor, had spent the previous six months killing scorpions and camelback spiders around U.S. military bases and reconstruction sites in Iraq. The official, regional coordinator Mike Gfoeller, had heard that Watkins could fight more than mosquitoes. "What are the odds of you getting an Iraqi boxer qualified for the Olympics?" Gfoeller asked. Termite spoke from the heart. "About one in a million...
...there's no frowning on string bikinis, if that's your taste in swimwear. And there is all manner of outdoor adventure, from scuba diving or wind-surfing further out in the azure waters of the gulf to trekking across Arabia's sands in 4-by-4s or on camelback...
...there's no frowning on string bikinis, if that's your taste in swimwear. And there is all manner of outdoor adventure, from scuba diving or wind-surfing further out in the azure waters of the gulf to trekking across Arabia's sands in 4-by-4s or on camelback...
These roommates have created their own lingo, briefly owned a balcony hot tub and lobbied successfully for the wall connecting their suites to be knocked down and replaced with a door. Their collected stories span the globe—from riding camelback together in Morocco, to sitting on top of a speeding bus in Haiti to living in a 300-year-old hut in Japan...