Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also knows the human cost of all this violence. One night two weeks ago, Holbrooke and Christopher Hill, U.S. ambassador to Macedonia, arrived in Pristina, Kosovo's capital, to brief ethnic Albanian leaders on the talks. Holbrooke was exhausted, and emotion percolated into his tired brain as he considered the consequences of a failed negotiation. "We may not see you again before the bombing starts," Holbrooke soberly told Albanian dissident leader Ibrahim Rugova. A quiet settled over the group. Hill said under his breath, "We may never see you again...
...especiallypopular, and "was prompted by our father'sencounters with air conditioning, television, popart or Mother's Day and Father's Day." Her fatherwas not against all fun--Lindbergh jubilantlytells of her father giving her a piggy-back rideto the rhythm of a nursery rhyme, and of lettingher "on very brief and special occasions" braid "askinny gray pigtail that hung lopsidedly over hisear." Nonetheless it was Anne Morrow Lindbergh whoserved as the emotional mainstay for her children...
...want to die," she quietly moans in a brief and uncharacteristic moment of weakness. The sweet-faced receptionist assures us in a gruff Boston accent, "I never ever heard of anyone dying from paintball." Eighteen Tufts students and eager young boys with their fathers gather in the paint-splattered waiting room. My friends and I sit down and admire a particularly deadly-looking weapon lying on the table...
Georges continued to achieve and impress his peers during his brief but prolific career as a professional journalist...
...began writing poems in her childhood but decided, once she understood her parents' renown, to keep them private "for the obvious reason that comparisons would be made." Instead, after a period of adolescent turmoil--anorexia, an impulsive and brief marriage to a biker at age 19--Hughes became a painter and an author of children's books. Eventually, she settled in Wooroloo, "a small hamlet, very small," in Australia, to paint landscapes of the stark, almost surreal terrain. And, as it happened, to write poetry that other people might read...