Word: blanketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...success had exorcised the demons of Vietnam. In reality, though, U.S. military policy has only taken a first step. We have overcome our total reluctance to using force. But like a baby learning to walk, our government still clings to the doctrine of invincible force as a security blanket against another fall...
...compound and laid side by side underneath a tree. The friends had collapsed after walking for three days and two nights to reach this place from their home village 31 miles away. A nurse slips intravenous tubes into barely visible veins and covers each man with a gray blanket. With stomachs too cramped to tolerate food, the men ignore the cans of gruel placed at their side. The nurse predicts that neither will survive to evening...
...students, at least two of whom were trained in first aid, wrapped Klupinski in a blanket, others attempted to hold the crowd back...
While sweeping, the treaty will not cover everything: Mexico, in line with its constitution, has flatly ruled out foreign ownership in its energy industry, while Canada seeks to extend the blanket protection it won in its earlier agreement with the U.S. for "cultural industries" such as television and publishing. But in a major concession, Mexico has agreed to allow American companies to establish stakes in its banks and, under NAFTA will include insurance and securities firms, institutions previously barred to foreign ownership...
...many first-years at Harvard, the proctor isa fairly minor player in everyday life. Mine,though, was a central figure--he became thesecurity blanket and quasi-parental figure that,as much as I hate to admit it, I still reallyneed. Lee new about every sidelong glance I gotfrom a guy I liked, got the play-by-play on everyminor roommate tiff, and listened to all mybitching about my parents. He was the first personto know when I found out I was going to appear on"Jeopardy!" in the spring, and when the show airedin...