Word: endless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...helicopters, and would perhaps put armed soldiers aboard the U.N. choppers as well. Last week the U.S. went so far as to move additional warplanes into strike positions in Turkey and to send Patriot missiles to Saudi Arabia. But for the moment, the parking-lot incident in the endless game of chicken that Saddam has been playing with U.N. inspectors had come...
...preserve as much of that expertise as possible by hiding it from U.N. eyes. Politically, his aim is to demonstrate, by repeatedly tweaking the U.S., that he not only has survived but also remains a force to be reckoned with. Ultimately, he hopes, the world will weary of endless inconclusive showdowns and shift its attention elsewhere; he will be left in peace to rebuild his military machine until he attains the regional dominance that he was attempting to achieve when the gulf war began...
...Indies," which exists only in a badly garbled abridgment made after his death by the Spanish priest Bartolome de las Casas. Las Casas, who wrote voluminously on the Spanish colonization of the New World, was not a mariner, and his version is filled with errors that have caused endless dispute over such basic matters as Columbus' course on his historic sail and where his little fleet made landfall. Candidates for this honor include San Salvador, Grand Turk, East Caicos, Semana Cay, Conception Island and half a dozen others. In these, as in a myriad other matters, we still...
...Kafkaesque novel that owes much to the author of Portnoy's Complaint. A shapely female breast finds itself metamorphosed into a best-selling novelist named Philip Roth. The bewildered Roth is condemned to a modern version of hell: an endless series of appearances on Geraldo, Oprah and Donahue...
...they're back--those nasty viruses and allergies that strike you while you're down and cause endless misery. And they might just decide to hang around for the next few weeks...