Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baird Honored: Adams House isn't known for its athletes, but the gloomy, ultra-Bohemian Plympton St. institution honored junior Chris Baird last night in a special dinner...
...Buzz" Proudfit is wooing Crimson fans with her defensive moves and her fail-safe jump shot, Frey is back at Harvard, majoring in sociology and compiling a three-point percentage (.467) that's good enough to rank her 10th in the country, and Butler is having a truly amazing, ultra-astounding, cosmically blessed sophomore season, leading the Ivy League in scoring (16.4 ppg) and rebounding (12.4 rpg) and boasting the 8th highest rebounding average in the nation...
Under the circumstances, such skeptics may be reassured by the strong possibility that the plan will never go into effect. Karadzic conditioned his acceptance on a demand that the ultra-nationalist assembly of the self-styled Bosnian Serb government must vote its approval. He predicted the assembly would do so this week, but not everyone believes it will...
With nationalist sentiment the ruling emotion, the war-crimes charges may have added cachet to some candidates. Washington had linked ultra-nationalist leader Vojislav Seselj and Serb militia chief Zeljko ("Arkan") Raznjatovic to Bosnian atrocities. Both were elected to the Serbian parliament. Though British Prime Minister John Major joined George Bush in pushing for enforcement of the U.N.-ordered no-fly zone over Bosnia, the Serbs showed no sign of backing off. The elections only emphasized their continuing defiance and kept Milosevic firmly in control...
...went into a kind of holding pattern for nearly 50 years. With the collapse of communism, all the terrible deeds committed during World War II (and World War I, for that matter) came streaming back, demanding vengeance. The Croats' alliance with Hitler, and the savage enthusiasm of the Croatian ultra- nationalist organization Ustashi in slaughtering Serbs from 1941 to 1945, created a vast accumulation of hatred and blood debts. A Serb will say, "Croats are a genocide people...