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“Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, the commanding general in Iraq, remembers that Fallujah was a turning point.”
“Reagan would later admit that his failure to appoint Baker was a turning point for his administrationbut the recognition would come too late.”
“Instead he diverted them east, then north, looping around Tula in an effort to reach the Serpukhov railroad — a turning movement through an arc of 120 degrees.”
“It came to a culmination of sorts—or at least to a turning point—in a dense little volume titled The Theory of Island Biogeography, published in 1967.”
“Arthur had passed the village of Hayslope and was approaching the Broxton side of the hill, when, at a turning in the road, he saw a figure about a hundred yards before him which it was impossible to mistake for any one else than Adam Bede, even if there had been no grey, tailless shepherd-dog at his heels.”
“It has stood perhaps by the clustering apple-blossoms, or in the broad sunshine by the cornfield, or at a turning by the wood where”
“Dunrobin will always be dearer to me now, and I have felt towards you and the duke a turning of spirit, because I remember how kindly you always looked on and spoke to him.”
“But Rhoney recalled that a turning point came when it began to dawn on management how much UPS itself was benefiting from the power of the Web and the data it provided.”
“No wonder that, not-withstanding his desire to get on, he could not help pausing to look at a curious large beech which he had seen standing before him at a turning in the road, and convince himself that it was not two trees wedded together, but only one.”
“Really a vacant half-lot, gravel surface, unfenced, colonized by cars into a turning loop, recolonized by dealers into a drive-through facility.”
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Shadowtailed Riverhorse
Etymology guessing game; the words are entered as the sum of their root meanings. Let the games begin!
little mouse, little sheath, handiwork, hairy cat, sea pig, the eye of the day, suckling, clothes bag, wild ass, jungle man, little sword, water vessel and 107 more...
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fbharjo RE: verse Feb 4, 2013
Telofy Verse was what I had intended thus the black cat, my hints are for something divided in two which is still unsolved.
This however is now probably the most sursolved word so far.
Sorry, for the ambiguity. Aug 13, 2009
bilby Wesson? Aug 13, 2009
fbharjo (de)visa-versa Aug 13, 2009
sionnach pirouette? revolution? radius (=diameter divided in two) Aug 13, 2009
Telofy It seems that fits as well. Aug 12, 2009
bilby Revolt? Aug 12, 2009
whatthe
I fail to see the resemblance between bimbos and lolcats.
Aug 12, 2009
Telofy noun
(And it sounds kinda cute to me.)
(And it's also a perfectly commonplace word.)
(And short.) Aug 10, 2009
madmouth is it a verb or a noun? Aug 10, 2009
Telofy @madmouth: The next and probably last horror is going to be a nicely surreal interpretation of a (human) thumb.
But first you need to find out what it is that is divided in two. Aug 10, 2009
sionnach I give this puddy tat two thumbs up. Or do I mean four?
* is missing Boris and Natasha, so will settle for any cute puddy tat images * Aug 10, 2009
madmouth first bimbos, then lolcats
what horrors await us? Aug 10, 2009
bilby NO! Wordie was the last internet refuge from gratuitous cat pics :-( Aug 10, 2009
arcadia YES! Aug 10, 2009
Telofy Thumbs up! (Or one anyway.)
Aug 9, 2009
fbharjo verse Aug 9, 2009