Word: note
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Air Force officers were bragging that air power by itself had triumphed for the first time in history, Army officers were quick to note that air power had failed abjectly in attaining the war's key goal--protecting ethnic Albanians from Serbian violence. Says William Odom, a retired Army three-star: "This war didn't do anything to vindicate air power. It didn't stop the ethnic cleansing, and it didn't remove Milosevic." In fact, a ground movement--an offensive by the resurgent Kosovo Liberation Army in the past two weeks--played a key role in upping...
...ever. The user could download a worship experience, including Scripture, Webpastor's sermon and Holy Sacraments, in 10 minutes flat. You knelt at the keyboard and hit alt/f7, and out the disk drive came a tiny white wafer. Bill Gates e-mailed God a copy of Windows and a note...
Lourie's Stalin enjoys the occasional note of totalitarian whimsy, as when, late one night, he rides back to the Kremlin from Lubyanka in his limousine, accompanied by "Boss Two," the near identical double who stood in for him at risky public appearances. Stalin has the limo stop alongside a drunk, rolls down the window and lets the drunk see...twin Stalins! "Drink a little less," Uncle Joe advises, and the limo roars off. This Stalin takes in the world with a savage candor. At a meeting with his hatchetman Lavrenty Beria, "I caught a whiff of that hideous cologne...
They are quick to note that it is not only small businesses moving out of Harvard Square, mentioning the failure of national chains such as Foot Locker, Laura Ashley, and Benetton in recent years...
Cahaly uncovered and later framed slips from the Clark and Mills Electric Co., which note a specialty in "Everything Electrical." In the eaves, Cahaly also found plenty of printing supplies and, thanks to some historical detective work with local advertisements, verified the existence of a printing store on the property...