Word: shells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HANNA R. SHELL...
...LAVISH DINNER THAT CHEF John Folse prepared for a private party of Procter & Gamble executives tasted rich enough to make a cardiologist apoplectic. Folse, owner of the celebrated Lafitte's Landing restaurant near Baton Rouge, served thick seafood gumbo, sauteed herb-encrusted duck breast, sauteed speckled trout, fried soft-shell crawfish, salad with vinaigrette dressing and--for those who had room left for it--Mardi Gras cake. Every dish was prepared the old-fashioned Louisiana way, with generous dollops of oil; every bite tasted heavenly. Yet the whole thing, from soup to dessert, was a low-fat meal. That...
THUG OF THE YEAR: Sani Abacha, leader and executioner of shell-shocked Nigerians. Runner-up: Ratko Mladic, the Serb who makes Milosevic look like a moderate...
...Balkan capital to another. He was pulled up short on Aug. 19 when three aides, including Robert Frasure, who prepared the way for Holbrooke's diplomacy, were killed in a road accident near Sarajevo, but that tragedy only made Holbrooke more determined. When the Bosnian Serbs lobbed a shell into a Sarajevo market on Aug. 28, they triggered a massive NATO bombardment, and in the ensuing weeks, Holbrooke relentlessly bullied his interlocutors toward the bargaining table. Finally, they sat down to talk peace in Dayton, Ohio, last month. The reason everyone quit fighting, it was joked, was that this...
...been in every game at the end, and we've just crawled into a shell," senior co-captain Elizabeth Proudfit said. "No one has any idea what's going...