Word: orall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Combining a crusty overview with extensive oral histories, Citizen Soldiers follows combat units and individual battle-numb troopers from the invasion of Normandy to the Allied victory in Berlin. Not many starters finished. The period from June 7, 1944, to May 7, 1945, is saturated in blood, sometimes frozen solid. What was called the Crusade in Europe is in large part a story of questionable judgments, dumb luck, trial and error (the easiest way to dig a foxhole in icebound terrain is to start with a hand grenade; the main lesson learned in street fighting, says one survivor...
...could. Having declared that the audience was the loudest he had ever seen, Puff Daddy had all of his fans do the wave around the auditorium. Another large portion of the show was taken up by an obviously staged, sexually explicit argument between Lil' Kim and Puff Daddy concerning oral...
There was no need to revisit China's agreement to halt its assistance to Iran's nuclear program. That had finally been worked out just minutes before the meeting. In the past, Chinese arms-control assurances have usually been oral promises or couched in the form of dinner-table toasts. This time the U.S. wanted something in writing that promised to cut off nuclear aid to Tehran. That would open the door for American firms to sell nuclear power reactors to China. When Jiang's plane had touched down three days before in Honolulu, the haggling over the form...
...well-respected Kazakh. Once late at night, we were squatting in a circle in a yurt with the rest of the men. It was a place where there were no roads, just people moving in their yearly cycle with their camels and horses. Then the official started reciting the oral history of the Kazakhs," he says...
...oral vaccine aimed at cutting down salmonella infections from eggs and poultry could be available for farmers by early next year...