Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...murderous hail of ground fire. Missile-firing Cobra and Apache helicopters would hit Iraqi armored units from distances beyond the pilots' sight; A-10 antitank planes belching more than 4,000 cannon rounds a minute would blast away from closer range. The battleships Wisconsin and Missouri might chip in with Tomahawk missiles launched from far out in the gulf. "When you concentrate that kind of firepower, you can kill an entire regiment in less than five minutes," says one American general...
Officials estimated that 200 civilians and fighters were killed, and more than 300 were wounded throughout the country. The FMLN leadership views such muscle flexing as a bargaining chip in U.N.-mediated negotiations with the government to end the decade-old civil...
What was he trying to say? That after 10 minutes I had really only burned off .0027 calories--about one-tenth of a sugar granule on the chocolate chip cookie I ate in the dining hall...
...screen gave me my final message: "Goal attained." I went back to my dorm and ate the half of a carrot I had just burned off. Then I ate a chocolate chip cookie...
...chocolate chip cookies...