Word: lisbon
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...dirt, and then, in a moment of sublime surrealism, looked across to the bay, and said: "Beautiful, no?" Though sweat?or perhaps tears?stung my eyes and clouded my vision, I nodded in agreement. A crumbling Portuguese fort?a remnant from the 400 years Timor spent under Lisbon's rule?presided over a perfect, white sand beach, complete with palms leaning lazily toward the clear waters. In another time, the scene could have been described as idyllic. But at that moment, East Timor's potential as a holidaymaker's paradise seemed to me minimal, at best...
...matter which direction you look from the 16-story Commission headquarters in Brussels, the bullets are flying fast and furious. Whether from across the Rhine River in Germany, from over the Seine and Paris, across the English Channel from Britain or even from the distance of Rome and Lisbon, the onslaught has been relentless...
...Times interest rising and falling on waves of cataclysm and calm. Masses of people became convinced the end was nigh when Rome was sacked in 410, when the Black Death wiped out one-third of the population of 14th century Europe, when the tectonic shudders of the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 caused church bells to ring as far away as England, and certainly after 1945, when for the first time human beings harnessed the power to bring about their total destruction, not an act of God, but an act of mankind...
...referee was incompetent, the other side cheated, the coach was clueless or, if nothing else is plausible, one of "our boys" let the team down. Last week, all these anguished complaints were being aired in newspaper columns, TV talk shows and coffeehouse conversations in Paris, Buenos Aires and Lisbon...
...Pepsi, Canada Dry and Diet Coke, students found neatly laid-out rows of Carr’s Water Biscuits, Brie wedges and French bread slices on plates with paper doilies. There were also assorted cookies from boxes of Pepperidge Farm’s Entertainment Collection (Milano, Geneva, Bordeaux, Brussels, Lisbon, Chessmen and Chocolate Pirouettes) arranged in enticing circles. The pièce de resistance was a white porcelain bowl with a blue flower pattern filled to the brim with fresh strawberries...