Word: roam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government has lost all control in Mogadishu, and chaos has taken over. Armed mobs, some of them renegade soldiers from President Mohammed Siad Barre's army, roam the city shooting and looting. Troops shouting "Allah Akbar!" (God is great!) invaded the Roman Catholic cathedral, drove the congregation out with tear gas and truncheons, then set fire to the building. An Italian priest who witnessed the attack said many worshipers were killed...
...back of the Bow is their domain. From the newly-installed big screen sports television to the pit which holds three dart boards all the way up to the pole which marks the bar's midway point, the regulars roam...
These clinical scientists are now hypothesizing that this simple organic molecule may ward off cancer and heart disease by scooping up charged oxygen atoms, dangerous particles which wreak havoc as they roam through the body's circulatory system...
...intifadeh. But its sternness cannot be compared with the tales told by Kuwaiti refugees about looting, rape, torture, beheadings and other summary executions by Iraqi soldiers. That the outside world has to rely on refugees' stories to learn what is happening in Kuwait is itself significant. Reporters and photographers roam the Israeli-occupied territories, albeit with many restrictions imposed by the army, and report what they see and hear; they are not allowed into Kuwait...
...summer. Mathers will survive as he always has, with hard work, shrewd calculation. He and those like him may be the future of this vast and troubled land, which seems to be stumbling back in time toward a recast frontier where grass will be king, some buffalo may actually roam again, and man will be in the minority...