Word: arming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...withdraw, then war could break out again." Some 20,000 U.S. troops have been stationed in Bosnia along with 40,000 other NATO troops in an effort to separate the warring factions and facilitate the formation of a new federation of Bosnian Muslims and Croats. But unless NATO can arm and train the two groups, the Serbs are likely to prevail with their considerable military arsenal. Plans to supply $800 million worth of military training and supplies are in the works, but have been delayed. Thompson doubts that keeping U.S. troops in Bosnia will reflect badly on Clinton, as long...
After inviting me into his domain, Kedlaya drops onto the cushion of his wooden chair, casually draping his arm around the chair. He is barefoot, wearing a T-shirt and jeans. A pair of large round dark-rimmed glasses sits on his face, right below the broad expanse of his forehead. Short curly dark hair hugs tightly to his bulbous head. The quintessential mathematician...
What this meant was that Harvard never had consistency. With all the injuries (along with Olson, junior co-captain Dave Cho missed most of the year with arm troubles) and lineup switches, the Crimson was never able to get a firm foothold on the makeup of the team. It was almost like the team had to mentally begin the season every couple of weeks...
...June 1942, the first members of the Class of 1946 began their college careers under the new trimester system, but this educational device could not enable them to avoid the long arm of the draft...
...wide was the reach of The Bust, as it immediately was known, that it brought the normally fractious Harvard community into rare unity. A Soldiers' Field rally of 11,000 students and faculty produced a strike. Classes turned into floating picnics; strike T-shirts and arm bands entered the realm of high fashion; and nightly political meetings of Politburo duration became the after-dinner activity of choice. For some, there might be dancing 'til dawn, with drugs and sex in abundance. Harvard now had far more pressing things to do than police its students' bodies...