Word: hellishly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Report have devoted an astounding 72 pages to their commemorations. (Time, perhaps in honor of its Luce back ground, outdid itself with 32 pages, 24 by its "master historian" Otto Friedrich.) But in each case, the "good points, bad points" history in the articles becomes a sideshow to the hellish navy-yard photos, leaving readers with only one conclusion: They did this...
After three months of hellish pounding, the dazed citizens of Vukovar stagger out of their cellars into a city turned to rubble...
...that I do have my own special torture (urging the "fundamentally hellish" Science B-15 upon them). And I have one other quirk...
McCarthy also said mildly that his first two years as a prisoner were "very difficult." In fact, the years after he was kidnapped in Beirut in 1986 were hellish. Brian Keenan, an Irish teacher released last year who spent part of his captivity with McCarthy, described life with Islamic Jihad: "Tiny, tiny cells, constant blindfolds, prolonged days in the dark, sometimes weeks without light." The guards, he said, "just could not control the urge to beat very badly." When he and McCarthy were moved from one vermin-infested flat to another, they were covered with tape and stuffed under...
...dead are buried. The wounded have been treated. But the devastation wrought by Saddam Hussein's demented destruction of Kuwait's oil wells has only just begun. Three months after Iraqi troops began blowing up 600 wells in Kuwait, an estimated 500 fires are still burning, perpetuating the most hellish man-made inferno the earth has ever seen. As fire fighters struggle to quench the flames, a job that may take two years, the toll on the region's environment and the health of its people will continue to rise...