7-10 Wordly Wise

A metre-long fish that escaped from an aquatic centre during recent flooding has been found.

My wife and I want her to speak up and assert herself.

But thanks to the “decisive actions of self-defense battalions,” the statement said, the attack had been averted with just a few casualties.

As black as pitch, with flame orange shoulders, the male perches on tall grasses and leafless branches high above New York’s bleak winter marshes.

He met her intent look; she had rarely seen his blithe eyes more solemn than now. Fawcett, Edgar

But it was their docile, laid-back personalities that seemed to seal the bond between them.

An oil company’s resource base inevitably dwindles if it cannot gain access to new oil and gas.

An Oklahoma inmate’s last words, 12 seconds after being injected with lethal chemicals, were: “I feel my whole body burning.”

Almost all Chinese cities monitored for pollution last year failed to meet the standards.

Only two of the mutilated, decomposed bodies have been identified so far - both were men who had disappeared four months earlier.

Remarkably nimble for a big man, Iglehart effortlessly handled lead singing duties in front of almost dozen dancers. Seattle Times (Mar 17, 2014)

The plight of the families of five Indian passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines jet is dominating headlines.

But it was a big, ponderous, increasingly far-fetched example of the growing TV cliche of the evil, nihilist mastermind.

Well-educated and fluent in five languages, he was on the verge of going to university to study engineering before his driving career took off. BBC (Mar 13, 2014)

"You obviously have to be very vigilant and you will never be secure and you have to walk around paranoid," he said.