Word: worded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...announced that 10 additional B-52 heavy bombers would join several others launching attacks against Yugoslavia. The additional bombers will add 500-lb. iron bombs for attacks on troop concentrations, as well as precision-guided, Israeli-made missiles that carry 1,000-lb. warheads. Meanwhile, about 12 hours before word of the release reached Washington, Clinton imposed a U.S. trade embargo on the Yugoslav republic of Serbia, intent on choking off the supply of oil to Milosevic's military. The European Union's ban on oil shipments to Yugoslavia went into effect on Saturday. Said White House spokesman David Leavy...
...have lived more than three times your years, have rarely understood the occurrences and the people in the world that I have pretended to give order to. Yet I write sentences that end in periods. An odd word, sentence, don't you think? It means an authoritative decision, a judgment (one is sentenced in a courtroom), as well as a definite part of the language. Yet anybody who writes one knows that in reality sentences roll on and come to no conclusions; typically, they are questions disguised as answers, even cries for help...
...confused by the labels in the grocery store: multigrain, stone ground, cracked wheat. What's important is the first item in the list of ingredients. You're looking for the word whole. If it says enriched or wheat flour, it's a refined product...
Best not to know this about Greer, perhaps, and better to read her book for its flashes of light on a perpetually murky subject. And best too to let Greer have the last word, since she will no doubt seize it anyway. "I don't want to tell people to do anything," she says. "I have put down what makes my heart ache, and either it will be helpful to people...
...Here's a bigger word: suing...