Word: bluffs
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...conquer Europe. While Germany under Hitler grew ever bigger, Yugoslavia under Milosevic has shrunk. The element of truth in this analogy is President Clinton's point about appeasement: the longer you put off standing up to aggressive dictators, the higher the price. If we had called Hitler's bluff when he remilitarized the Rhineland in 1936, 50 million lives might have been spared. If we had stood up to Milosevic when his forces besieged the Croatian town of Vukovar in the fall of 1991, perhaps a quarter of a million men, women and children might still be alive...
...Says You! you will hear real or bluff definitions of such words as trank, chelp, and fubsy. You'll ponder this riddle: "Why is the third hand on a clock called the second hand?" But the abiding fun is in the college bull-session informality of the players' banter. Most of them are wizards of the Boston media, and they enjoy one another's wit almost as much as they enjoy cutting in with a bon mot of their own. It's an invigorating workout just to keep up with them, and Sher presides with the indulgence of a genial...
...envoy Christopher Hill -- who was bearing news that the ethnic Albanian rebels appeared ready to deal -- Milosevic released a statement saying, "Our negative stand about the presence of foreign troops is not only the attitude of the leadership, but also of all citizens in our country." Bluster? Definitely. Bluff? Madeleine Albright certainly hopes so -- because she's made the U.S. position very clear, and did so again earlier Tuesday: Serbs kill the deal, bombs. And "no NATO force," she said, "is a deal-breaker from our perspective...
...Serbs are calling the bluff. NATO generals raced to Belgrade Monday to warn President Slobodan Milosevic that air strikes remain an option after Friday's massacre of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. But Sunday's renewed Serb attack on the village where 45 civilians were butchered on Friday shows Milosevic doesn't believe the West has the will...
...Beat Wyoming 94-84. 14. Purdue 7-1 Beat Xavier 71-57. 15. Washington 4-2 Lost to UConn. 69-48; Lost to Boise St. 69-61. 16. Indiana 8-1 Beat Notre Dame 76-72, OT; Beat Temple 63-62. 17. New Mexico 5-0 Beat Arkansas-Pine Bluff 97-72. 18. UCLA 4-2 Beat Delaware St. 109-67; Beat Okla. St. 69-66. 19. Arkansas 5-2 Lost to Oklahoma 87-57. 20. Pittsburgh 7-2 Beat Prairie View 78-64; Lost to Tenn. 56-53. 21. Utah 4-3 Lost to URI 70-63; Beat...