Word: skies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...start of it was chillingly familiar: the wail of sirens, the staccato blasts of antiaircraft fire, the tracers lighting up the night sky over Baghdad. Then came the crash of missiles in the distance, sending up an orange glow along the horizon. On just the first night of Operation Desert Fox, U.S. ships and bombers pounded Iraq with 280 American cruise missiles--almost as many as hit the country during the entire Gulf War in 1991. Night after night, waves of warplanes, including B-52s, F-14s, F-18s and British Tornadoes, joined in the attack. Even...
When the darkness falls in Baghdad, you sit there looking out at the starry desert sky and you wonder, When will the gently twinkling lights be snuffed out by a sudden explosion of fire? When will the neon lines of tracers redraw the contours of the landscape in unthinkable ways? Will the trees and houses and mosques and suspect sites spreading peacefully toward the horizon be nothing but dust and rubble tomorrow? Will people...
...when he emerged from the Oval Office, Hillary had her arm around her husband's as the two of them, along with the Vice President, Gephardt and chief of staff John Podesta, made their way to the Rose Garden, a bare magnolia tree behind them, a darkening gray sky above. Not a single speaker there, not even the President, uttered the word impeachment. Instead, Clinton vowed, with steel in his jaw, to serve until "the last hour of the last day of my term...
WASHINGTON: Now that Operation Desert Fox has the sky falling on Baghdad, it won't feel like victory to ordinary Iraqis. But although President Clinton says this trip was necessary in order for UN inspectors to be able to do their jobs, this may mean the end of ground-based reconaissance. In the end, the decision to launch missile strikes on Iraq is another big win for Saddam Hussein. "The strikes are tantamount to an acknowledgment of defeat from the U.S.," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. UNSCOM's on-the-ground effort at arms control through inspection...
...goes. "What does wonk mean?" "How many novelists have been on your cover?" "Can you find a letter my son wrote to you in 1970?" "How much do actors make?" Oddly enough, no one has yet asked why the sky is blue...