Search Details

Word: shellings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...city's Kosevo hospital: "We have always lived in hope, but now I think freedom is just around the corner." Mirsad Curevac, a 31-year-old soldier, shouted, "We are winning!" On the first day of the offensive, he was a patient in the hospital when a Serb shell crashed through the room, severing the head of one patient and slicing the body of another in two. Even with his own head and hands bandaged from the blast, Curevac could not wait to rejoin his unit at the front, convinced that the Bosnian army was about to give the Serbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRUSHED HOPES | 7/3/1995 | See Source »

...streets of Cambridge are not the only places to find cheap music during the summer. Free outdoor concerts abound at such venues as the Hatch Shell in Boston and Charles Square in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Living Is Easy! | 6/24/1995 | See Source »

Commercially, HIStory can't miss, though its hefty cost -- a list price of $32.98, which may be discounted by as much as $10 in some stores -- could be an impediment to megasales. Russ Solomon, head of Tower Records, asks, "What ordinary high school kid is going to shell out 25 bucks unless they want it awfully bad?" Still, early indications are good. Scream hit No. 5 on the Billboard singles chart in its first week-the highest debut for a single ever. Says Mike Shallet of SoundScan, which tracks music sales: "Naysayers are going to be surprised. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORY AND HUBRIS | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

...bombing attacks on the Serb ammunition dumps two weeks ago were an act of desperation. U.S. and European leaders knew the Serbs were likely to shell cities and take hostages in response. But the Serbs had been shelling Sarajevo anyway and were brazenly violating a nato edict excluding heavy weapons from a 12-mile zone around the city. The allies believed they had to do something, anything, to stand up to them. The new show of allied firmness may turn out to be no less desperate and no more effective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNSHAKABLE VACILLATION | 6/12/1995 | See Source »

...access is fast becoming the cool perk of the 1990s, and probably beyond. Those of us who choose more altruistic--and probably lower-paying--pursuits will almost certainly shell out some 'Net funds to save money on communication in general, and they'll probably help press local governments to fund' Net access for the greater community...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Before the Internet Explosion | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

Previous | 263 | 264 | 265 | 266 | 267 | 268 | 269 | 270 | 271 | 272 | 273 | 274 | 275 | 276 | 277 | 278 | 279 | 280 | 281 | 282 | 283 | Next