Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...self-congratulatory tone was, of course, premature. As the bombs over Zagreb proved, the Krajina Serbs were in no way ready to swallow defeat, but they were quite prepared to kill civilians. Twelve rockets fell on the city. Some of them were confirmed to be Orkans, manufactured by Yugoslavia in partnership with Iraq, carrying antipersonnel warheads that spew out up to 288 deadly metal "bells," or bombs, packed with explosives and buckshot. The toll was six dead, 180 wounded...
...deliver the impossible combination platters that the new populism seems to demand-lower taxes and a balanced budget without any cuts in middle-class benefit checks, guaranteed health care without any limits on choice, superpower status without any risk of American blood or treasure-the populist conflagration will swallow them up too. But will that delicious moment arrive? Or has populism peaked...
...only reason Harvard (3-2 overall, 1-2 Ivy) lost wasn't Yale's (6-0, 2-0) superior play. It was also due to a call, and that makes the defeat all the more difficult to swallow...
...Third Wave does have some weak spots. The Insteps' "Shotgun Jimmy" and Ruder than You's bizarrely serious "Swallow Blood" stand out as slightly inferior tunes. But even these songs are not bad, they are just not as strong as the rest of the album...
Kesslee catches Rebecca and puts her in a dreadful prison hoping to convince the riotous grrrl to swallow her morals and fight on his side of evil. Instead, the venomous feminist spits in the face of bad men everywhere, and escapes in a pilfered tank which she grows to love with the passion David Hasselhoff had for his car, Kitt...