Word: sneaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first goal seemed to characterize the first half for the Crimson. It was not too threatening, but it managed to sneak through...
...weeks ago, a brave 19-year-old patriot drove a bomb-laden car into an Iraqi Army barracks, killing over 30 soldiers and herself. Such resistance seems to be growing stronger with each day, as more repatriated Kuwaitis sneak past the border troops, and as the resistance groups become more organized...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom. This piece first ran on June...
Experience with sanctions has shown that someone usually cheats. Oil is particularly easy to sneak through secret channels. U.S. officials believe that the only truly effective course would be to keep Iraqi oil bottled up at the well. This could be done by cutting off the three outlets through which Iraq exports its crude: two pipelines through Saudi Arabia, another leading to Turkey, and ships in the Persian Gulf. Oil-industry and academic experts say Iraq would collapse under such pressure in a few months or a year...
...Baghdad. Born in 1937 the son of peasants, he was orphaned at the age of nine months and raised by an uncle, an army officer named Khairallah Talfah, who hated Britain's domination of Iraq's puppet monarchy. At his knee, the boy learned the ways of intrigue and sneak attack, until Talfah joined in an abortive anti-British coup in 1941 and was imprisoned. Saddam did not attend school until the age of nine and later, when he applied for admission to the elite Baghdad Military Academy, he was rejected for poor grades. It was a devastating blow, instilling...