Word: dots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Military checkpoints dot Route 6 from Baghdad to the southern city of Basra, evidence that tension persists between the Iraqi army and the rebellious Shi'ite population. At one checkpoint, passersby can see men being searched by soldiers. On a tour of Basra conducted by the local military governor, a general who reportedly commanded the troops that crushed the Shi'ite uprising after the war, foreigners are escorted by a truckload of armed soldiers with a roof-mounted machine gun and grenade launchers -- though the general insists all is peaceful in the city...
This latest talking dictionary and thesaurus with raised-dot keys was designed for the 85% of the visually impaired who can't read Braille. Franklin...
...face was obscured at first by a small gray dot, then by a big blue one. Most stations bleeped out her name when it was mentioned during the trial. And news editors across the country wrestled with a tough question: whether to override a basic principle of journalism -- to give the public all the available facts -- in order to protect her wish for privacy and a chance to live a normal life after the case was closed. So when the woman who accused William Kennedy Smith of rape shed her anonymity on ABC's PrimeTime Live last week, the nation...
...nameless and faceless, just a blue dot, gray smudge or white circle on TV screens. Only her shoulder-length black hair was visible around the edges of the distortion, along with a bit of tailored suit and a string of pearls. Inside the courtroom, however, the jury and a few spectators had a clear view for nearly two days of a 30-year-old single mother struggling with a variety of emotions, from anger to anguish, as she testified about a fateful evening...
...officers' mess ((when)) the officer of the deck came flying in to say planes were dropping bombs. Within 100 yards was a plane with a big red dot on it. I thought it must be a war game -- the reds against the blues...