Word: rocketing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...spiral of violence might end, Jerusalem maintained repeatedly from the start that its attacking forces were limited in number and that their mission would be short. On Friday the . troops were pulled back to the security zone, but officials promised they would return if Hizballah did not halt its rocket attacks...
...cool state-of-the-art watch; the woman has a short, stylish haircut and is wearing only a bath towel. Here is a cover which is not afraid to face the future. On the back of the book, we read that "Adam Strade made [the heroine] tingle like a rocket seconds before ignition...
...rest as easily as those whose children took up curling. The heart-pounding Alpine sport -- to be introduced at the Games this year as a demonstration event -- is skiing's equivalent of drag racing: no turns, no brakes. Gleaming in aerodynamic suits and Darth Vader-like helmets, the skiers rocket down a steep, hard-packed 1.08-mile course at 120 m.p.h. or more...
...Minsk meeting, the new states made a little progress. They agreed that the intercontinental ballistic missiles of the former Strategic Rocket Forces -- renamed the Strategic Deterrent Force -- will be centrally controlled by the Commonwealth. Over the next few years, three of the four states with nuclear weapons on their soil -- Ukraine, Belorussia and Kazakhstan -- are expected to destroy them or hand them over to the fourth, Russia...
...Treblinka. But Buchanan has also claimed that diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody, much less 850,000 people at Treblinka; that the U.S. should not have apologized to France for protecting Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie; and that Arthur Rudolph, the ex-Nazi rocket scientist forced to leave the U.S. after the Justice Department accused him of brutalizing slave laborers at a Nazi rocket factory, was "railroaded...