Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intelligence spotted Serbian soldiers in Kosovo steadily slipping away from their posts. A K.L.A. offensive lured Serbian tanks out of their hiding places, massing them into cannon fodder for allied warplanes. Even the gruesome pictures of Serbian civilians mauled by errant bombs failed to crack NATO determination. Now Clinton was holding serious discussions about ground troops, a possibility Milosevic thought had been safely discarded. Perhaps most critical of all, the Hague war-crimes tribunal finally indicted him on May 27, placing his very life in jeopardy if he ever slipped from power. "He recognized he wouldn't prevail," says...
...sitting in one place until we reunited for Commencement in June 1999. None of us bothered to think that maybe the most important people we would meet at Harvard weren't even here yet, or that some of those wonderfully well-adjusted people we had just met would crack before second semester, or that four of our classmates would not live to see our senior year. Yes, Harvard Yard is occupied by ghosts: not the ghosts of the Cabots and the Lowells, but the ghosts of the people who we used to know and the people who we used...
...Crimson, which placed fifth at the EARC Sprints with a time of 5:50.28, could not crack into the upper echelon of heavyweight crews...
Evans recalls meeting West playing pool, andeven in that setting West would "crack jokes"about Marx, Hegel or Kierkegaard...
...Crimson, which placed fifth at the EARC Sprints with a time of 5:50.28, could not crack into the upper echelon of heavyweight crews...