Word: death
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...Death panel n.--A fictional group alleged to be in charge of rationing care in health care reform proposals...
USAGE: "The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide ... whether they are worthy of health care." --Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor...
...Tasua marks the death of Imam Hussain's bravest and most loyal lieutenants at the battlefield of Karbala. Ashura, tomorrow, would commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussain, himself killed by the armies of an unjust government...
...hair shaped in a shiny black cap that makes him look like one of the Fisher Price little people), with a penchant for the perverse and the supernatural. He's caught by Holmes in the film's opening scenes in the middle of some Satanic ritual and condemned to death by hanging, but threatens to return from the grave. Holmes' favorite dangerous lady, "the woman," Irene Adler is also on hand. She's played by Rachel McAdams, who is saucy and fetching, but we don't believe for a minute that this is really a woman who would give Sherlock...
...have spent two weeks in Thailand reporting on a tsunami that has transformed its famous beach resorts into corpse-strewn ruins. One night, exhausted, my clothes reeking of death, I try calling a colleague in the hard-hit Indonesian province of Aceh. I simply misdial, but the recorded message gives me chills: "The destination you have dialed...