Word: shells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those were the reflections of Ferid Durakovic the day after a Serb mortar shell landed near his food store in Sarajevo last week, killing 43 people and wounding more than 80. Others recalled hands and feet tossed among odd bits of clothing, torsos strewn amid fresh vegetables, wet scraps of flesh clinging to the stone walls of nearby buildings. It was another savage attack on a city that has seen too many, and everyone in Sarajevo knew it would go unavenged, like all the rest...
...only she can find an escort. Why, here's an amiable native (U Aung Ko). "Hello," he says, in effect, "I'm an illegal guide in a military dictatorship, and I'd like to plop you into a genocidal civil war." "Hello," she virtually replies, "I'm a shell-shocked ninny...
When geologists first visited the mid-ocean range in the late 1970s, they were convinced that it supported the then new theory of plate tectonics. According to this theory, the surface of the earth is not a single, rocky shell but a series of hard "plates," perhaps 80 km thick and up to thousands of kilometers across, floating on a bed of partly molten rock. The mid-ocean ridges, geologists argued, were likely locations for planetary crust to be created: the new plate material would be pushed upward by forces from below before it settled back down to form...
Sandra Bullock has made a career out of playing shy, lonesome characters who break out of their shell in a crisis. In "The Net," as opposed to "Speed" and "While You Were Sleeping," at least she has a job, as a computer-systems analyst. But she still doesn't have a life. Friendless and working at home, she comes into possession of a program that its creators say is an anti-computer virus program but is itself an electronic Ebola. Needless to say, Angela must be deleted before she can delete it. "There are some logical jump cuts...
...right side of her body. During the weeks of painful recuperation, Poturak sustained herself with a single vision: she wanted to take her young son for a walk in the neighborhood and, without having to be afraid of mortars or snipers, board a tram. When Wednesday's shell sent a piece of shrapnel into her right thigh, Poturak realized that Sarajevo has become a place where wishes as simple as hers are extravagant. Her sentiments are now the despairing antithesis of those expressed by so many Sarajevans only days before. "I don't think our army will ever liberate...