Word: punched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Belgrade's military chiefs went back to the planning board. Instead of the massive "sweep" of the original attack, they developed a wickedly clever alternative: a series of smaller sweeps against the K.L.A. that would be combined with a wholesale assault on the civilian population. This two-punch would have the double purpose of depriving the K.L.A. of ground support and permanently altering Kosovo's demographics. Cities and towns would be emptied to depopulate the province. The VJ would shell villages so the police and paramilitaries could move in to put the population to flight, torch their houses and kill...
...brick, chili pepper, grenadine, punch, rose, rosewood...
...idea of a preventative tweak ?- and this chairman?s impeccable record says it?s worth a ton of cure ?- had the inflation-fearing bond markets jumping for joy and yields dropping like a stone. Wall Street isn?t going to grouse about the host watering down the monetary punch just a little bit ?- not if it means this nine-year Mardi Gras can go on indefinitely...
Though Ali won the gold medal at the Rome Olympics in 1960, at the time the experts didn't think much of his boxing skills. His head, eyes wide, seemed to float above the action. Rather than slip a punch, the traditional defensive move, it was his habit to sway back, bending at the waist--a tactic that appalled the experts. Lunacy...
...know about Carlyle's Great Man theory of history, but what about the Creepy Guy Behind the Curtain theory of history or the Meddlesome Housemaid Who Spikes the Punch theory or the Wife Who Whispers in the Great Man's Ear theory...