Word: digging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem, Prince directs the play in slow-motion, forgetting that theater should not mimic real life. Theater, it has been said, is real life with the boring bits cut out. Unfortunately, Family Secrets gives us nothing but boring bits. We see Diane dig through old boxes, we see Theresa walk slowly up the stairs, and we can do nothing but writhe in bored agony...
...units, all combat veterans. The Guards are among the "most formidable fighting men in the Third World," according to Richard Jupa, co-author of an upcoming article on the Guards for Army magazine. Jupa doubts that they can be defeated from the air. "They can disperse their brigades and dig in deeply," he says. "They are expert at decoys." Jupa predicts that even after heavy air bombardment, the Guards will put up a ferocious, if brief, fight in any ground war that follows...
Brown, a graduate student, and Fowler, an undergrad, were forced to dig a shallow cave in the snow, after initial attempts to shield themselves from the severe weather failed...
Saddam could elect to do nothing. No withdrawal, total or partial, nor any promise of one; no further hints at a compromise deal; nothing. He would simply dig in deeper in Kuwait and dare Bush to put up or shut up on his threats to expel Iraq by force. That would amount to a hair-raising game of chicken in which Saddam would be betting that Bush would turn away first. Possibly, or so the Iraqi dictator seems to think, the American President will lose his nerve at the last second. Or perhaps Congress, the U.S. public and the allies...
...especially repugnant way, Walesa's campaign smacked of darker impulses. During the first round of voting, Walesa boasted of being a "true Pole" with the "documents to prove it." It sounded like a sly dig at Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the target of whispers that he had Jewish ancestors; he came in a poor third. Mazowiecki is not Jewish, but Walesa made no effort to protest that such an issue had even been raised. To show he is not anti-Semitic, a fairly repentant Walesa last week agreed to sponsor a Holocaust museum memorializing the Nazi killing ground...