Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...home one Friday night, I noticed ghastly sounds--then smoke--coming from the wheel well of my car. Realizing that I was driving with a flat tire, I nonetheless tried to ignore my car's hurking and jurking so I wouldn't have to stop and get help. Convinced that I could take my car to its very limits, I turned up the radio, sat back and even drove past a gas station...
...wasn't until later in the evening that he confessed: he found Lee; they argued; he broke her nose, and bludgeoned her in the back of the head three times with the blunt side of a tire iron. He then pulled her body out of sight. He returned nine hours later to the park to commit an act of necrophilia, and bury her body in a shallow grave under a bush...
...interesting analogy," says a Bush Administration official. "Like Galtieri, Saddam seems to think we are too soft to fight unless he invades Saudi Arabia. He figures we'll eventually tire of sitting in the desert and his occupation of Kuwait will become just another of the world's sore spots that remain unresolved for decades. He's wrong -- but fewer and fewer of us believe he will learn that lesson short...
...refining their responses to each contingency. The most crucial factor is time. If, for example, the embargo takes many months to exert serious pressure on Saddam, says a White House official, "Iraq could simply hunker down and wait us out." A protracted stalemate could cause U.S. allies to tire of the mission or permit friction between American troops and the Saudi population to fester. In the U.S., public impatience with the cost of the buildup could lead to demands for a withdrawal...
Rallying the Arab world to the American cause has been trickiest. Saudi Arabia feared that the U.S. might tire of its mission and pull out, leaving the oil-rich kingdom at Saddam's mercy. But the resolve Bush projected was perceived as firm, in part because he waived the Metzenbaum amendment -- a restriction on the sale of U.S. jets to the Saudis. Coupled with the satellite intelligence showing that Saddam's forces were positioned to strike the Saudis, that action turned King Fahd into a believer, and U.S. troops were promptly invited to defend Saudi Arabia...