美联社新闻一分钟 2005-09-21

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1.Strengthening rapidly to a category 2 storm, Hurricane Rita lashes¹ the Florida Keys with flooding rain and winds of 100 miles an hour.

2.With Rita bound for the Gulf² of Mexico, New Orleans' mayor suspends the city’s reopening, ordering nearly everyone to leave again.

3.Roadside bombings beyond Baghdad kill five US soldiers, pushing the total number of American forces killed in Iraq above 1,900.

4.Afghanistan's leader challenges the need for major foreign military operations there, calling for a new approach to tackling militants³.

5.And Simon Wiesenthal, the holocaust's survivor⁴ who tracked down Nazi⁵ war criminals for decades after World War II has died at 96.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. bound
6 bound bounds bounding bounded
If the quantity or performance of something bounds ahead, it increases or improves quickly and suddenly.
The shares bounded ahead a further 11p to 311p.
The economy isn't bounding back as fast as people expected.
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2. tackle
4 tackle tackles tackling tackled
If you tackle someone, you attack them and fight them.
He claims Pasolini overtook and tackled him, pushing him into the dirt.
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