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Word: camped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...council leaders flocked to Darling's camp, Redmond, in her capacity as vice president, was required to expel Burton, Driskell's running-mate, from the council for truancy...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad and Zachary R. Heineman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Students Will Decide Council Size, Term Bill | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...intelligence that Bin Laden operatives have been in Chechnya training Muslim fighters in guerrilla tactics. And the mixture of chemicals that Russian investigators found in some of the blasts matches the brew mixed by bombers-in-training at his camp in Afghanistan. "There are some strings that connect here," a U.S. intelligence official tells TIME. "Some of the bombs in Russia were consistent with what Bin Laden bombers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: What Bin Laden Did On His Summer Vacation | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...like the Cuban-American anti-Castro lobby to spoon-feed the aging strongman a propaganda victory, but then things haven't been going their way for some time now. The anti-Castro camp is fighting to keep Elian Gonzalez, who turned six Monday, from being reunited with his father in Cuba, after his mother and stepfather died when their vessel went down on the journey from Cuba. Elian, who was found clinging to an inner tube, was placed with relatives in Florida, and anti-Castro activists have showered him with toys and urged that he be allowed to stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Six-Year-Old's Plight Is a Gift to Havana | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

EDITOR'S NOTE: TIME Daily writer Frank Pellegrini, at a ripe 27 years, has taken a leave of absence to join the Army Reserve. He is undergoing basic training - boot camp - and then will spend several months in an Army journalism school. Given the difficulty the forces are experiencing in recruiting young people these days, we think his experiences and impressions are worth sharing. Here is the eighth missive; others will be posted as they arrive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Private Is the Last Thing You Can Be | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...hardly needs saying that boot camp is hardly a place for the thoughtful, but here solitude is almost mathematically impossible to find. Go to the latrine at three in the morning and you find two soldiers, up on the guard shift, polishing their boots in the shower and murmuring in Spanish. Go anywhere - I mean anywhere - without a "battle buddy" and you're at the mercy of any drill sergeant who happens by; technically you can be considered AWOL for walking past the barracks alone. Inside, there is someone everywhere; outside, the PX across the street is unattainable without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Private Is the Last Thing You Can Be | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

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