Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perhaps the Bosnian game is deception rather than surprise. Most of the military experts watching last week's offensive take shape confessed that they were confused. One of them, Canadian Lieut. Colonel Daniel Redburn, had a particularly close vantage point. He was bottled up with his detachment of peacekeepers at a U.N. base in Visoko that had been blockaded and mined by Bosnian-government troops. He could see smoke and explosions rising from a battle a couple of miles away but could only guess at their significance. "Is that a bluff?" he asked. "Do they want to get to Sarajevo...
General observations of this type are certainlynot difficult to make, nor are they new orrevolutionary. Modern people are masters atdescribing the crises and the misery of the worldwhich we shape, and for which we are responsible.We are much less adept at putting things right...
...flight the helicopters had traveled at about 120 m.p.h.; they roared back to the Kearsarge at 175 m.p.h., skimming the treetops in hopes of avoiding Serbian gunners and missileers below. The 87-mile flight was smooth for its first third, when the helicopters entered a shallow valley in the shape of a rice bowl. But suddenly three small, shoulder-fired SA-7 missiles ripped past, followed by "small gunfire hitting the bird," as Corporal Michael Pevear, the other Marine sitting beside O'Grady...
...past century of this nation's history is as much a part of Shinnecock Hills as the diabolical rough. The club began to take shape in 1891 thanks to the money of William K. Vanderbilt and his wealthy friends, and the sweat equity of the Shinnecock Indians who once inhabited this land on the eastern end of Long Island. The original clubhouse-the original American golf clubhouse-still stands sentinel over the course, a tribute to the genius of architect Stanford White. J.P. Morgan regularly challenged the links, as did Andrew Mellon...
...convoy of three buses and an ambulance rumbled out of Bosnia and into the Serbian university town of Novi Sad. Out climbed 121 U.N. soldiers -- mostly Canadian, British and French -- who had been held hostage by Bosnian Serbs for six days. They were tired and grimy but in good shape, except for six who had been injured in a road accident. Sitting on a bed in a hotel in Belgrade, a 21-year-old from the Royal Welch Fusiliers said, "All I want now is sex, but I can't say that, can I? Just say I want...