Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...troops--more, not fewer, since the bombing began--still vigorously cleansing Kosovo. But refugees report that Serbian soldiers have shed their uniforms to patrol the roads on stolen tractors, disguising themselves as civilian convoys. An Apache pilot will be hard pressed to make the right call on whether to strike a convoy that could contain the oppressor or the oppressed. A footnote: as more Apaches arrive, the number of G.I.s in Albania, 350 a month ago, will soon grow to more than...
...ethnic Albanian civilians whose homes, limbs and loved ones have been blown away by alliance munitions. Throughout Yugoslavia and even beyond its borders, weapons deemed "smart" and "precision-guided" have veered off target, destroying property and lives. On Monday -- only a day after NATO apologized for a Saturday air strike that killed 47 people on a civilian bus in Kosovo -- it was reported from Montenegro that the alliance had inadvertently bombed a second civilian bus, allegedly killing a further 17 people...
...shrill, desperate edge, and Marie is generally painful to watch. The two live in an apartment Marie (somewhat unofficially) looks after; the owners all perished except for a comatose girl, whose diary captivates Isa. Both in their early 20s, both living hand to mouth, perpetually between jobs, they strike up a friendship whose ups and downs are here faithfully and skillfully recorded...
...incident developed last Friday when Vina disputed a called third strike in a game in Pittsburgh...
Binkowski battled UMass reliever Nick Skirkanich to a two-strike count, then drove a split-fingered fastball up the middle, where second baseman Shaun Skeffington ranged to his right, scooped up the grounder, stepped on second and gunned to first, beating Binkowski by two steps...