Word: sliver
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...search for a missing person, few places in the world would be more forbidding than the sandy 28-mile-long sliver of land known as the Gaza Strip. Its cities are a chaotic maze of dusty alleyways lined by warrens of crumbling buildings that each seem indistinguishable from the next. The 1.4 million people who live there make it the most densely populated patch of land on earth. At times, the streets and souks can become a suffocating crush of human congestion. And the task of finding a lost soul is made more hazardous by the long-held...
They don't always taste good, and people don't know what to do with them. Look, there are seven kinds of apples here, but there's no one to give you a sliver so you know which one you'll like. Also fruits and vegetables are perceived as expensive. But a USDA report found you could eat five servings a day for under a dollar. I didn't believe it until I tried...
...Qaeda commander in Iraq, spoke to TIME and claimed the organization has a succession plan in place. "Let them be ready for our revenge in the name of our brothers and sisters who became martyrs on Iraqi soil," he says. Al-Zarqawi's foreign fighters always were merely a sliver of the bad guys in Iraq: intelligence estimates suggest al-Zarqawi commanded a few hundred men, of whom only a fraction were foreign jihadis. By most estimates that's less than 5% of the 25,000 to 50,000 insurgents believed to be operating inside the country. While al-Zarqawi...
...Like New Orleans, Broadmoor’s population was 68 percent African American before the storm, and it suffered from the geographical segregation that had grown since the violent integration of public schools four decades ago. Broadmoor is a representative sliver of the Crescent City...
...DIFFERENT SONG Pop-soul singer Peabo Bryson found himself in a whole new world of tax debt before the IRS auctioned off his two Grammys in 2003. They went for $25,000, paying off a sliver of the $1.2 million he owed...