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Amid Brickbats From China’s Government, Tibetans Will Ponder a New Strategy

By EDWARD WONG

Published: November 16, 2008

DEQIN, China — As the flames of anti-Chinese riots and protests engulfed many Tibetan areas of western China last spring, soldiers sent to the towns and villages of the deep river valleys around here encountered nothing but silence.




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自由時報 - Taipei,Taiwan
〔中央社〕行政院衛生署今天表示，衛生署並未核准新加坡均隆驅風油進口，呼籲民眾勿購買來源不明的藥品。 加拿大衛生單位年最近刊登相關訊息，警告消費者不要使用新加坡均隆驅風油（Kwan Loong Medicated Oil），並回收下架；理由是這個產品含三氯甲烷（chloroform），如

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medicated adjective
containing a medical substance:
medicated lotion/shampoo/tissues

dash
v., dashed, dash·ing, dash·es. v.tr.

1. To break or smash by striking violently.
2. To hurl, knock, or thrust with sudden violence.
3. To splash; bespatter.
4. 1. To write hastily. Often used with off: dashed off a note to the dean.
   2. To drink hastily. Often used with down: dashed down a glass of milk.
5. 1. To add an enlivening or altering element to.
   2. To affect by adding another element or ingredient to: ice cream that was dashed with rum.
6. 1. To destroy or wreck: Our dreams were dashed. See synonyms at blast.
   2. To confound; abash.

v.intr.

1. To strike violently; smash.
2. To move with haste; rush: dashed to the door.

n.

1. A swift, violent blow or stroke: knocked the books to the floor with an impatient dash of his hand.
2. 1. A splash.
   2. A small amount of an added ingredient: a dash of sherry.
3. A quick stroke, as with a pencil or brush.
4. A sudden movement; a rush: made a dash for the exit.
5. Sports. A footrace, usually less than a quarter-mile long, run at top speed from the outset.
6. A spirited quality in action or style; verve. See synonyms at vigor.
7. Either of two symbols, an emdash or an endash, used in writing and in printing.
8. In Morse and similar codes, the long sound or signal used in combination with the dot and silent intervals to represent letters or numbers.
9. A dashboard.

[Middle English dashen, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Danish daske, to beat.]

brickbat Show phonetics
noun [C]
a spoken attack; an insult:
The members of parliament hurled brickbats at the minister.