Word: crafting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...signal was O'Grady's or was just a Serb trick to lure aircraft in close, but now the Pentagon threw a massive intelligence net over the region. CIA spy satellites initiated a continuous sweep of northern Bosnia, hoping to photograph O'Grady on the ground. Air Force reconnaissance craft and signal intercept planes began swarming over the area. Other planes with special infrared scanners, which could detect the warmth of a body moving on the ground, patrolled the mountains as well...
...homed in on the radio signal O'Grady was sending, he set off a small yellow smoke signal to fix his location. Military sources reported that as the Marines were touching down in the wooded area, O'Grady came running out of the forest and hopped aboard the rescue craft. President Clinton, who called O'Grady's family as soon as the pilot was safely out of Bosnia, had high praise both for the pilot and theMarines who rescued him, saying: "They are all American heroes...
...history of Harvard College. On July 1, the College loses one of its most influential and longest-standing figures: Dean of the college L. Fred Jewett '57 will serve his last day as our dean. In his 31 year tenure at the College, Jewett worked tirelessly to craft the policies that have shaped and sustained the type of community that Harvard College is today. It is largely to him the students and staff today owe their gratitude. We will miss you, Dean Jewett...
...Bosnia. He had vetoed several previous requests by local U.N. commanders for bombing strikes, but this time he approved one. It came Thursday and was more than the usual pinprick: a squadron of 15 NATO planes flying out of Italy -- mostly American but including a sprinkling of other craft -- bombed ammunition dumps just outside Pale, the Bosnian Serbs' so-called capital...
...know that it's affected my craft. Yet it's certainly affected my subject matter--the military creeps into the edges of many of my poems, and sometimes it's right there in the center. I think of the military as being like a fraternity, as a closed society in which I recognize myself as an outsider. My brother becoming a high-ranking officer in the Marine Corps has, perhaps, intensified this feeling in recent years. The cold realism of the militarist is a sensibility that I've been exposed to, and am comfortable with. It's present...