Search Details

Word: painings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...bridge," recalls George Preece of Dunnville, Ky., then a sergeant, who manned a machine gun on the railroad tracks at one end of the span. Several former soldiers said the firing continued unabated for 30 min. "They were hugging the concrete floor, and I could hear screams--of pain and horror--coming from women and children," Daily says. James Kerns of Piedmont, S.C., then a sergeant, was firing another machine gun, and says he deliberately aimed to miss. The 30-ft. arches of the bridge left plenty of room for that. "I'm positive I never hit anybody," Kerns says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bridge at No Gun Ri | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...have been otherwise, and in the weeks since I have sometimes thought how wildly, irrationally lucky I was to be spared. But not at the time. With the remains of my rented Japanese car folded around me like crude origami, I was trapped, intermittently conscious but aware of no pain, and losing blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Death's Throat | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...white scars from surgery--and the X rays showed an astonishing clutter of pins, screws, nails, spikes, plates and wires, as though the right side of my body were a reject costume design for RoboCop. My muscles had wasted away from inaction, and I could scarcely move without severe pain. I stank of sweat and urine. And I felt almost crazily happy--partly because of the outpouring of support and affection from friends and family, and partly because I knew I had been to the limit and made it back. Though diminished, I was alive. I had always taken that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Death's Throat | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...this brings us to the third factor. None of this matters without an intense work ethic and a dedication to success. Nobody enjoys pain, nobody enjoys exhaustion, but everyone on that team must endure those trials if they really want to enjoy winning...

Author: By Tim M. Martin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: My Favorite Martin (No I in Team) | 10/7/1999 | See Source »

...time" to start shooting, to the gun dealer who sold Lo the Chinese-made semiautomatic SKS rifle, to the Simon's Rock College officials who failed to detain Lo even after they were warned that he had a gun. The result is a tapestry of shared pain and guilt in which everyone, including the killer, is in some sense a victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elegy for a Gone Boy | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

Previous | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | Next