Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disappeared. With most cafes closed, people could no longer engage in the city's favorite pastime, sipping Turkish coffee and arguing. Eating was a dull affair, enlivened only by combining U.N. food packages in inventive ways. (The recipe for one popular preparation, "brains": fry onions in oil, then combine sour yeast and bread crumbs.) Spring had arrived, but children had given up playing volleyball, football and their nameless street games. Many shops were closed, and those that remained open were poorly stocked...
...even today, the Star Trek books and the German Perry Rodan series, about a band of heroic warriors who take over the solar system, dominate his home bookcase) and, says science teacher William Eisenbeiser, devised elaborate schemes to build everything from a spaceship to a machine that would extract oil from shale. According to the Dexter Leader of April 24, 1975, Koernke won several science-fair prizes, one for a "communications antenna" that "is now being sold to nasa." Despite grades that several of his teachers recall as unspectacular, the article stated that the federal space agency had awarded...
America's actions have added to the economic problems. When Clinton announced the embargo on April 30, the rial collapsed. No other country has joined the embargo, and Iran will find other buyers for the $3.5 billion worth of oil that the U.S. purchased in 1994. But the boycott may hurt nonetheless: most of Iran's oil-production equipment is American, and badly in need of spare parts...
Train wrecks are marvelously entertaining in retrospect, with a guitar accompaniment. Mary Karr's God-awful childhood in a sulfurous East Texas oil town has the same sort of calamitous appeal. Her rowdy memoir The Liars' Club (Viking; 320 pages; $22.95) takes its title from the ring-tailed bosh passed around among oil workers at the American Legion bar, where her father, the champion liar, took her when she was a tadpole...
...should be a prelude to getting the U.N. troops out altogether," says Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. The Muslims would then be provided with heavy weapons, and air strikes would be employed while they learn to use them. Targets would include Serb military headquarters, munitions depots, arms factories, oil-storage facilities and bridges...