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1. Hurricane Katrina plowed into the Gulf Coast at daybreak Monday with shrieking , 145-mph winds and blinding rain.
2. Katrina ripped 2 holes in the curved roof of the Louisiana Superdome, letting in rain as thousands of storm refugees huddled inside.
3. President Bush considered the decision on whether to release some oil from US petroleum reserves to help refiners hurt by Hurricane Katrina.
4. Thousands of Sunni demonstrators rallied in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit to denounce Iraq's new constitution. The demonstrations came a day after negotiators finished the new charter without the endorsement of Sunni Arabs.
5. And for the first time in a long time, rock music dominated the MTV Video Music Awards with Green Day winning 7 moonmen.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. plough into
1 plough into ploughs into; ploughing into; ploughed into
If something, for example a car, ploughs into something else, it goes out of control and crashes violently into it.
A young girl and her little brother were seriously hurt when a car ploughed into them on a crossing.
PHR-V (AM) plow
2. shriek
1 shriek shrieks shrieking shrieked
When someone shrieks, they make a short, very loud cry, for example because they are suddenly surprised, are in pain, or are laughing.
She shrieked and leapt from the bed.
Miranda shrieked with laughter.
VB
3. blinding
1 blinding
A blinding light is extremely bright.
The doctor worked busily beneath the blinding lights of the delivery room.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
= dazzling
4. huddle
2 huddle huddles huddling huddled
If people huddle together or huddle round something, they stand, sit, or lie close to each other, usually because they all feel cold or frightened.
Tired and lost, we huddled together.
...strangers huddling together for warmth...
Hundreds of people huddled around a single transistor radio listening to the announcement.
The survivors spent the night huddled around bonfires.
VB
= cluster
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