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BROUHAHA
- Hubbub; uproar.
- Usage: Story on states contemplating a tax on beer to raise revenues to help deal with budget deficits.
Source: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.
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TABUN
- A chemical agent originally developed by Germany in 1936 as a pesticide; it is a clear, colorless, tasteless liquid with a faint fruity odor, and can be weaponized as a nerve agent.
- Usage: Report of the discovery by U.S. forces in Iraq of a vial of an unknown substance.
Source: Various on-line resources.
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THRONG
- A crowding together of many persons.
- Usage: Coverage of videos being shown on Arabic satellite Television purportedly of Saddam Hussein on the streets of Baghdad.
Source: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.
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