Word: lift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sixteen minutes later, Harvard's corner struck again. This time, Clark aired a lift shot instead of hitting it hard and low, and the only way Fortier could block it was by raising her stick over her head...
...Bosnian Serbs seized Srebrenica, a U.N.-designated "safe haven," and galvanized President Clinton into belated action. His departure plans suddenly on hold, Holbrooke took charge of the Administration's negotiations on Bosnia. Plunging zestfully into the Balkan thicket, he emerged last week with the dramatic Serb promise to lift the siege of Sarajevo in exchange for a NATO bombing halt...
...rapport with my customers, and I made enough money to lift myself out of homelessness," he says. "It was the first honest work I was able to do in years...
...Blue Devils didn't have the same troubles. With 7:16 elapsed in the half, Duke's aptly-named Mandy Schott corralled a rebound off Milhollin's shin pad and rolled it into the box, giving her team its first big emotional lift...
...ethnic cleansing," the brutal dialectic of aggression, retaliation and reconciliation seemed to have been telescoped into a matter of days. There is still a long way to go, and all hope could yet be dashed-on Saturday the Bosnian Serbs' continued recalcitrance triggered a new nato ultimatum: lift the siege of Sarajevo, or be subjected to yet another round of air strikes. But all of a sudden the chances for a settlement in Bosnia seem better than they have been since the wars there began...