Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attacked hundreds of suspected Pakistan-backed infiltrators Wednesday, with some of the bombs landed on the Pakistani side of the border. "This was the largest incursion into India since 1948, and the object is less military than political," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "By the choice of terrain, this looks less like an attempt to capture territory than a means of keeping international focus on Kashmir. Pakistan is concerned that if things remain quiet in the region, the world will forget about the long-standing dispute over the territory." Wednesday's escalation brought tensions between the two countries...
...wasteland of the southern California desert and the feral terrain of the Mexican badlands, the barren landscape echoes the devastation and unspeakable immorality that festers there. Cyrus, the embodiment of pure, savage evil, is the leader of a devil-worshipping cult, the Left-Handed Path, whose lust for blood knows no limits. In a savage and seemingly senseless double-murder, a 14-year-old girl, Gabi, is kidnapped. Her father, Bob Hightower, with his ex-wife dead and his daughter missing, is more desperate than he ever imagined possible. A small-town cop, Bob frantically investigates every lead...
...prepares to enter the next world, Carmen looks back on her life: her masked desires for passion, her resistance to change, her assertions of power in a male-dominated religion and male-dominated world and her constant struggle to find beauty in a harsh and unforgiving terrain. The saints that Carmen addresses have given her solace and guidance through the years, from Saint Liberata, the patron saint of abused women represented as a crucified female martyr, to Saint Theresa of Lisieux, who teaches Carmen to find beauty in adversity...
...TERRAIN OF TERROR...
...military out of Kosovo. This sort of thinking demonstrates that we haven't learned a thing from Vietnam, Somalia and a hundred other similar situations. Superior firepower has created an illusion in the American mind that warfare can be swift, efficient and relatively bloodless. Fighting the Serbs on the terrain of Kosovo will be bloody, ugly and long lasting. If the politicians are so gung-ho to sacrifice our sons and daughters, let them be the first ones on the battlefield. GREG SAMSON Clinton Township, Mich...