Word: lashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some point, the White House believes, Saddam's increasingly untenable situation will force him to make a choice: either to lash out militarily or to seek a diplomatic compromise. Some experts detected a few feeble hints last week that he might be willing to negotiate, or was at least trying to buy time. "Saddam is not interested in going down in flames," one official said. "He's interested in power. So if he calculates that his gamble in Kuwait is not working, he may try to cut his losses and conserve his forces for another day." Washington rejected Saddam...
...shooting war is avoided now, it may come later. When and if the economic stranglehold hits Iraq hard -- perhaps in three to four months -- it is entirely possible that rather than capitulate, Saddam will lash out militarily. No matter how supportive the public may be of Bush's intervention today, its willingness to tolerate flag-draped coffins returning to the U.S. for weeks on end is at best problematic. "This is not Panama or Grenada," says a man who has served both Reagan and Bush. "This is a deal with no known end," and the long haul is not America...
Bungee jumping is based on an age-old ritual practiced by the "land divers" of Pentecost Island in the South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu. Every spring villagers there collect liana vines and wind them into long cords. Young men then scale high wooden towers, lash the vines around their ankles and jump. A successful leap is considered a demonstration of courage -- and a harbinger of a plentiful yam harvest...
...pastor of the Hungarian Reformed Church in the Transylvanian city of & Timisoara, the Rev. Laszlo Tokes seemed an unlikely figure to spark a revolution. But Tokes, 37, possessed a sharp tongue at a time when that attribute was rare in Rumania. Not only did he lash out against the tyrannical regime in Bucharest, but he even accused Hungarian Reformed Church leaders of collaborating with communist authorities...