Word: polese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There was no letup in terror though. Refugees reported that loyalists were executing captured rebels by hanging them from utility poles and the gun barrels of tanks. Insurgents in the north claimed the army had taken 5,000 Kurdish women and children hostage and was threatening to kill them. Tehran...
The seriousness of war is belittled by the flag-waving and chants and most particularly by the persistent commodification of the battle. Shop windows display "Operation Desert Storm" shirts, badges and buttons. The hot new fashion statement includes American flag earnings and pins with little yellow ribbons tied around their...
But the policy of hunting down the stray bison has been a public relations disaster. Of the park's 2,700 bison, 700 were killed by last spring, and an additional 11 have been slain this winter. The hunt is hardly sporting, protesters claim, since the Yellowstone bison have been...
We don't want another Vietnam, everyone says, squinting into the desert sun. We want something swift and decisive, short and sweet -- a Panama perhaps. For these are the two poles of our collective military memory: on the one hand, the quicksand of Vietnam; on the other, the "brilliant success...
A. A very significant moment for me was in 1987, when in a referendum Poles rejected proposals for painful but necessary economic reforms. I realized then that without popular support we would be unable to follow the communist route any further.