Word: mix
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these assaults show, terrorism spans a spectrum from state-sponsored attacks to individual acts (like the exploits of the university and high-tech bomber) that straddle an ill-defined border between terrorism and plain ordinary crime. The mix, however, has been changing. The traditional tightly organized, centrally directed, usually left-wing and often state-financed networks of highly trained terrorists are in decline. The end of the cold war has deprived them of the money, weapons and safe havens that used to be provided by Moscow and Eastern Europe. Syria and Libya, traditional sources of training, direction and money, have...
...Fourth of July fireworks display. It won't, though. A SWAT team of FBI agents and New York City police burst into a garage in the borough of Queens at 1:30 last Thursday morning, catching five men hunched over 55-gal. barrels, swirling wooden spoons to mix fertilizer and diesel fuel into an explosive paste. The alleged bombmakers were hauled into court, some still wearing overalls splotched with what the local FBI chief called a "witches' brew." They and three others nabbed in raids on apartments, all described as Muslim fundamentalists, were charged with conspiracy to carry...
...dazzling fireworks display designed by the famous Grucci Family, synchronized to music exclusively on Mix 98.5-FM. Bring your radio and tune...
...catch on. Today it's filled with funky restaurants, offbeat stores and music joints (such as B.B. King's). On spring and summer nights, Beale becomes packed with people of all types strolling around. It's one of the few places in Memphis where both Blacks and whites mix in numbers about proportional to their representation in the town (54 to 46, more or less), but everyone there too concerned with the music or with the open bars to pontificate much on race relations. That's what Memphis politicians...
...time, I was feeling exhaustion. I was feeling some relief at having actually arrived back in Boston after airline mix-ups. But what I was feeling most intensely was something I've learned to expect as part of my college experience...