Word: forfeits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shortly after the Iraqi officers left the Plaza, Khalid moved 32 women to a nearby mosque and determined that he would rather forfeit his life than aid in the planned rape. Sometime before morning, however, Colonel Rida and thousands of other Iraqi troops pulled out of the city. Over the next 24 hours, many of the retreating soldiers (and an undetermined number of Kuwaiti hostages accompanying them) died as allied aircraft bombed the highway that led back to Iraq. "We can only pray that Rida was one of them," says Khalid...
...lions, grizzly bears and other beasts were prodded out of cages into their gunsights. State and federal agents raided the multimillion-dollar operation and arrested Bartholomew. His trial ended last week in a plea bargain; he will spend six months in jail, do 400 hours of community service and forfeit his "preserve" to the state. County district attorney Theresa McGehee says, "I think we've made our statement: we as a society are not going to tolerate this...
Last Tuesday, an Ivy committee ruled that Harvard would have to forfeit its win against Brown. Coupled with the Crimson's loss to Yale two Saturdays ago, the Bruins would emerge as Ivy champions...
Adam Condo (Columbia) won by forfeit...
...Easton Ellis, 26, contained detailed descriptions of female mutilations that outraged women staff members at Simon & Schuster, Ellis' publisher. Did that give S&S second thoughts? Nope. But shortly before the book was to hit the stores, bad press notices finally persuaded the firm to scrap the project and forfeit the reported $300,000 advance...