Word: mile
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Serb ammunition dumps two weeks ago were an act of desperation. U.S. and European leaders knew the Serbs were likely to shell cities and take hostages in response. But the Serbs had been shelling Sarajevo anyway and were brazenly violating a nato edict excluding heavy weapons from a 12-mile zone around the city. The allies believed they had to do something, anything, to stand up to them. The new show of allied firmness may turn out to be no less desperate and no more effective...
Miller won the 100-and 200-yard butterfly. Junior Greta Steffenson finished a close second in the Mile. Kory took the 200-and 400-yard individual medley. The women also won the 400-and 800-yard free relay...
...cliche is that someone in charge cannot ask anyone to work harder than he or she does," says Fitzsimmons, "He has created a generation or more of people who see that example and go far beyond that extra mile...
Carswell, who ran the five mile course in 24:45 won the race and was followed by junior Brain Walsh, who placed fifth in 25:07 and Bundle, eighth...
Bosnian Serbs detained more than 200 U.N. peacekeepers and chained a number of them to probable nato targets as human shields to protect against further attack by NATO warplanes. Two days of air strikes by Western allies had damaged Serbian munitions dumps, located little more than a mile outside the Bosnian Serb mountaintop headquarters at Pale. The Bosnian Serbs also bombarded five out of six U.N.- declared "safe haven" cities in Bosnia, killing 71 people in the northern town of Tuzla alone. The air strikes, the first since November, were ordered after Bosnian Serbs ignored an ultimatum to return heavy...