Word: ironic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL PELTING DOWN ON A CORRUGATED-IRON roof jolted Specialist Jason Andrews from sleep on New Year's morning. "God, I'm still here," was the first thought that occurred to the 23-year-old from Winter Haven, Florida. "I was dreaming about a beach and warm weather," he says, "and I wake up in a sleeping bag in Bosnia...
...YEAR WHEN YASSER ARAFAT, SHIMON Peres and Yitzhak Rabin worked toward peace--and one of them gave his life--when Slobodan Milosevic, Franjo Tudjman and Alija Izetbegovic negotiated the end of Bosnia's lengthy and bloody war, when statesmen who represented the fall of the Iron Curtain are losing their power to a communist comeback, when Helmut Kohl is winning an economic bet in the east of Germany, and President Clinton and his Secretary of State Warren Christopher are defining a new world order, your choice of House Speaker Gingrich as Man of the Year shows how provincial TIME...
...IRON AGE REVISITED Ripken was also responsible for bringing back the hallowed memory of the "Iron Horse," Lou Gehrig. By playing in 2,131--and counting--consecutive games for the Baltimore Orioles, the Iron Bird has channeled not only Gehrig's incredible work ethic but his grace and humility as well...
...kept for the duration of its presence. To anticipate harmony in the Balkans subsequent to NATO's withdrawal however, is not cynical or pessimistic as many would have you believe, but the unfortunate reality of a terrifically fierce ethnic conflict. Even Bismarck, who advocated a policy of "Blood and Iron" avoided intervention in the Balkans following the Crimean War for fear of the possible repercussions. Upon his removal by the Kaiser, Germany asserted itself, and World War I resulted...
...WORLD WAR II SURVIVOR WHO WAS drafted at 16 and was decorated with the Iron Cross. I ended up in Hitler's bunker as one of his last couriers. Not until I saw documentaries about the concentration camps and followed the Nuremberg trials did I realize the extent of the Nazi war crimes and recognize there were millions of innocent victims. We should not ask if Bosnia is worth dying for, but instead ask if thousands of innocent people, mostly women and children, are worth protecting. I wish that I had had the chance of putting my life...