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Word: roaringly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...growth forest in the Northwest, environmentalists used the endangered status of a rare, shy bird that few Americans had heard of and fewer had seen. Timber jobs, however, are being lost less to owl huggers than to automation in the mills. And the timber industry, despite its bull-roar patriotism, senselessly bypasses U.S. mills and mill workers and exports round, unprocessed logs from private forests to Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mill City's Bitter Choice | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

...spite of the dizzying roar of gunfire, Fawaz seemed to have it right. Israel was theoretically blazing away not at the Lebanese nation but at the guerrilla groups supplied and paid by Iran and assisted by Syria. Those groups have been engaged in a long-running low-grade war with Israeli occupation troops in southern Lebanon and have attacked Israel from wadis in the area. Israeli-government spokesmen claimed that their forces were counterattacking them with great precision, targeting guerrilla bases and homes, offices and training centers. In fact, Israel was pounding the country with a blunt and heavy instrument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Peace Got to Do With It | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

...roar of Doug's shotgun is the sound of a growing national tragedy. America's easy availability of guns and the restlessness of its youth have finally collided with horrific results. Gunshots now cause 1 of every 4 deaths among American teenagers, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Bullets killed nearly 4,200 teenagers in 1990, the most recent year for which figures are available, up from 2,500 in 1985. An estimated 100,000 students carry a gun to school, according to the National Education Association. In a survey released last week, pollster Louis Harris found alarming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Boy and His Gun | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...across Bosnia. He thinks he may be tried as a war criminal if the Americans come but says he cannot worry about that. From his office, bare except for the desk, eight chairs and a cot, he can hear the NATO planes. They trouble him and often, as they roar overhead, he will stop in mid-conversation and begin a tirade against the forces that are arrayed against his men. But he is defiant about the possibility of foreign intervention. "I draw the maps around here," he says, "not Mr. Owen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Serbian Lines | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

...valley in eastern Bosnia, American Special Forces troops with blackened faces silently slip out of a tree line to point laser beams at Serbian artillery pieces, ammunition stores and fuel dumps. The F/A-18 Hornet and A-6 Intruder aircraft from the carriers roar in, lock on to the laser spots and send their bombs streaking toward the targets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reluctant Warrior | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

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