Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...southern Lebanon -- in retaliation, of course, for ambushes on Israeli occupation troops there and rocket attacks on northern Israel -- insisted it was none of the above. Just Operation Accountability, intended to make the guerrillas of Hizballah and Ahmad Jibril's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -- General Command...
...clock every Friday night, just before they hit the streets armed with two-way radios, police scanners, video cameras and a gutsy determination to stop kids from shooting one another. Seven men and two women bow their heads around a small table in the one-story, cinder-block command center in a rough part of town, hoping for peace, or at least enough rain to keep kids off the streets for one more night. "The hour is getting late, and our children need us," says John Foster, a vice president of the city employees union, who founded the group four...
...first black woman to sit in the Senate, Carol Moseley-Braun of Illinois, had amassed a spotty record in her first seven months. But she took command of the Senate floor last week as she demanded that the legislators reconsider their approval of the patent. "This vote is about race. It is about racial symbols, the racial past, and the single most painful episode in American history." Her voice shaking, she declared, "It is absolutely unacceptable to me and to millions of Americans, black or white, that we would put the imprimatur of the United States Senate on a symbol...
Belder and Prymaat are well on their way to a conquest of the bluntheads that inhabit Earth when they crash-land in New York harbor. The Conehead command back on Remulak is upset that they have damaged their space vehicle, so they are forced to fit in with Earthlings while they wait for relief. The wait could last many years. Beldar quickly realizes they are scrabnord (screwed...
...that 29 countries have sent to Somalia. India promised a brigade for February that still has not arrived. The Kuwaitis and the Saudis will not take action without first checking with their home government. The U.N.'s move against Loi was intended to restore discipline, though the Italian high command denied that he disobeyed orders...