Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saying "It is necessary to use force to liquidate the bandits," Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev advocated storming the hospital where Chechen rebels hold over 1,000 hostages. A defiant Shamil Basayev, the leader of the rebel group, defied Grachev, saying: "Let them come and storm the place." Negotiations in the three-day old crisis have hit a standstill as the 200 rebels holed up inside the building rejected an offer of safe passage to Chechnya or any country willing to accept them. Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin is on his way to attempt a peaceful resolution, but his chances appear...
Written before desert Storm had commenced, Walzer's article was little more than the academic version of throwing up his hands at the situation. Though the Iraqi aggression and brutality would seem to have merited an international response using Walzer's own arguments, he was unwilling to call for such a response when it counted. Instead, Walzer puttered around the issue, dealing with the subtleties and details of the question rather than its blatant realities...
...Warsaw residents say, by virtue of carefulplanning. The night before Brad was born, an icestorm was about to hit southern Missouri. Notwanting to risk the drive in bad weather, theCampbells left early for Sedalia, the site of thenearest hospital 40 miles away. The next day,December 20, 1972, the storm, and Brad, appearedin full force...
Commencement is coed for the first time. Pusey gives a farewell Baccalaureate address which condemns students radicals. The ceremonies are disrupted as Cambridge residents storm the stage...
...some point that morning, Graham says she decided to storm the stage and deliver her now-famous speech...