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...better than MREs." MREs, or Meals, Ready to Eat, are the soldiers' most accessible enemy. Everyone hates them. Egyptian soldiers refused them. Only ravenous Iraqi prisoners of war wolf them down -- including the chewing gum. When the milk runs out, there is pineapple drink to pour on the cornflakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life on The Line | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

...pour: to send a fluid (or particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over or on something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pourly Edited | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

...huge face -- bulbous nose and ship-prow chin dominating the small, lively eyes. Devouring a steak over lunch at the swank George V hotel in Paris, he cascades opinions on any subject, from Dostoyevsky to David Letterman, punctuating his effusions with grand, intense gestures. When a waitress arrives to pour the St. Pourcain, Depardieu proffers the larger of his two stem glasses. "But, Monsieur, that's for the water," she admonishes. "No, no," replies the proud owner of vineyards in Burgundy and Anjou, "I like wine in a big glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life in A Big Glass | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

...pull up to the sidewalk and come to a screeching halt. the street, as far as the eye could see, is littered with debris--shards of glass, plastic window shades and pieces of twisted, gray shrapnel. All the buildings are pockmarked, scratched up. Dazed residents pour out of their houses, many still in their pajamas. The police work quickly to seal off the area of impact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Day the Missles Began to Fall | 1/23/1991 | See Source »

Iraq says it will pour 250,000 more troops into Kuwait. U.S. Army and Marine Corps announce call-ups of 26,625 reserves. Bush, in Mideast, meets Egypt's President Mubarak and Syria's President Assad on the crisis. Senate Armed Services Committee opens hearings on Bush's gulf policy U.N. Security Council votes 12-2 to give Iraq until Jan. 15 to pull its troops out of Kuwait, after which United States and its allies are free to use military force. Bush says he is willing to send Baker to Baghdad in effort to end gulf crisis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIMELINE | 1/16/1991 | See Source »

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