Word: stormings
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...prince who carries his own pillow as a defense against cheap hotel linen and an army of retainers as a defense against anyone who might try to storm the castle, it can take a little time to get used to being tossed into the moat...
...sent the screenplay, which I read first, and then I read the novel. It's interesting, for instance on The Ice Storm [1997], I started reading the novel and it was so different, I could tell that Ang Lee's concept of our story was going to be somewhat austere, and also somewhat a comedy of manners. The book was just so detailed, I actually didn't wind up reading it. But with A Map of the World I just couldn't put it down, it was just so gripping...
...there weren't enough irony to go around in a hijacking drama that had the hosts of Osama bin Laden vowing not to negotiate with terrorists - and urging Britain to storm the plane when they'd prevented India from doing the same to a hijacked Indian Airlines plane only weeks earlier - many of the hostages may actually have been grateful for the hijacking: Besides the 19 people now in custody, at least 60 of the hostages have applied for political asylum in Britain. And while Home Secretary Jack Straw might be sympathetic toward people condemned by history to live under...
...release one of their leaders. But it's an irony to which the Taliban - hosts of Osama bin Laden - appears oblivious, as it denounces terrorism and steadfastly refuses to negotiate. While in the Christmastime hijacking, the Taliban insisted on a negotiated end to the crisis and forbade India from storming the aircraft - to the point of surrounding it with their own troops to prevent waiting Indian commandos from making a raid - the movement's civil aviation minister Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor called Monday for British forces to storm the Afghan plane. "The British may be reluctant to storm the plane with...
...team was only down 1-0 to a more talented B.U. squad off an early goal by winger Jack Baker. The Crimson had managed to weather an early Terrier storm on the strength of spectacular senior netminder J.R. Prestifilippo...