Word: erupted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even as new battles erupt, the world's focus is turning to diplomacy. The nato allies will try to muddle through until fall, but if they truly mean it when they say the only possible solution is a negotiated one, Milosevic is inevitably the key. He represents the only evident way to pressure the Bosnian Serbs into negotiations. Right now, he is holding out for a lifting of sanctions, and the U.S. is balking. If something has to give, the sanctions regime seems...
Kent State, Jackson State and Ohio State erupt, an several students are killed. Campuses across the nation erupt in protest...
...there is a darker side to the Panthers' promising beginning. Tensions erupt in the wake of Betty Shabazz's visit when the Panthers discover that her Muslim escort had not loaded their guns. The message is clear and chilling: these guns are meant to be used. From then on, each encounter with the police is fraught with horrible tension; the police will not continue to tolerate this threat to their authority, while the Panthers are prepared to defend themselves and the Black community at the first sign of violence...
...dreary days after the disastrous midterm elections, one topic made the often volcanic President Clinton erupt more than any other: his political consultants. "How could we have paid them so much and done so poorly?" he once shouted in the Oval Office. But now, just three months later, those fires have clearly cooled. Not only have most of the offenders been welcomed back, but they also have been placed at the heart of the White House's most important and difficult challenge: getting the President re-elected...
...Give me the damn encyclopedia!'' I shout. Hearing the dread word, my nephews erupt from the rug and flee...