Word: holing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little smile and explained that the term incursion didn't apply. "We don't have a border with Chechnya," he said. "Chechnya is part of the Russian Federation." In the Chechen capital of Grozny, guerrilla leader Shamil Basayev displayed his own brand of black humor, calling for a massive hole to be dug in the Russian cemetery on the edge of the shattered city in preparation for a new pile of Russian corpses...
...eyes are surrounded by a tough, protective layer called the sclera. Only at the front of the eyeball does the sclera give way to the cornea, which is transparent. Light passes through the cornea to the pupil, the hole in the middle of the iris, or colored part of your eye. Depending on how bright the incoming light is, the pupil grows wider or narrower, much like the adjustable aperture of a camera. The light then passes through the lens, which lies directly behind the iris and changes shape as needed--curving or flattening--to help focus the image onto...
Shakir, who had just 11 hits--10 of them singles--on the year, and never batted outside the nine-hole in the order, slapped a two-run single to center for the winning runs...
...invaders have, as David O. Russell, who wrote and directed Three Kings, says, "fallen down the rabbit hole" into one of modernism's most disturbing places, where calculated brutality and mindless consumerism exist side by uneasy side, a place where a life may not be judged a fair trade for a Rolex. They are also, as Russell later recalls, part of a sequence "we were not going to finish before lunch." A producer worried about the budget suggested he "broom out" some of the details and move on. But the film's star, George Clooney, stood fast. It was scenes...
...listen to Liz Phair; she's my favorite female artist in the whole entire world; and Mudhoney and Hole, and that's about it. If there's some new chick, I don't think I'd like her at all, because she's just some actress...