Word: linings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Clark moved up to the No. 3 position from his usual spot in the bottom half of the Crimson line-up. Facing a talented Cornell freshman, Clark dropped the first set 3-6 as his backhand failed him throughout...
...looked futile against primitive "ethnic cleansers" with guns. The long-threatened bombing campaign failed to deter the rape of Kosovo and even appeared to be speeding it. Publicly, NATO insisted that the blame for the refugee flight lay solely with Milosevic, not Western bombs. But privately, officials offered a line that made more sense alongside the awful images. Military planners lamented that bad weather, clever Serb tactics, White House worries about collateral damage--and a reluctance to risk pilots' lives--kept them from hitting at Milosevic as hard as they wished. And diplomats complained that the limp military effort wasn...
...into neighboring Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro since the bombing campaign began on March 24. On Saturday, NATO spokesman Jamie Shea said at least 200,000 to 300,000 more Kosovars were heading for the border. At the Montenegro boundary, one column of refugees awaiting entry extended in an unbroken line of misery for 20 miles. Late last week, fearing internal instability, Macedonia closed its borders, with thousands of Kosovars still waiting...
...huge humanitarian disaster on our hands." The roads leading out of Kosovo were trails of suffering. At least 500 elderly Albanians, too sick and weary to go on, were abandoned by the roadside on the way to Rozaje. On Friday NATO spokesman Shea reported that a six-mile line of some 25,000 refugees had formed on the border with Macedonia. "We're seeing ladies in slippers, children with no shoes and socks," he said. In Albania the refugees' dismal plight was further prolonged by the authorities' cumbersome registration procedures. Even as refugees flowed over the borders at the rate...
Deutsche Bank provided a line of credit to a small company that built the walls, bridges, floors and roofs of Auschwitz. One imagines the bill for the construction of such things: walls, bridges, floors and roofs, $6 million; towers and searchlights, $4 million; wire fences, dogs and guns, $2 million; showers, $3 million; ovens, $12 million. Now one imagines a bill presented by the survivors consisting of the same items with some additional incidental charges for medical experimentation and the extraction of teeth. Naturally, today's bill would have to be adjusted for 1990s dollars. The mere image...