Word: woundedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The Games indeed continued in the aftermath of the bombing, with almost 90% attendance rates, but the sense of play--of a profoundly engaging international rivalry and unity at the first fully attended Games in history--had been transformed into something considerably more muted. Alice S. Hawthorne, 44, of Albany...
As people flooded out of the park toward Peachtree Street, a stream of ambulances sped in to carry the wounded to local hospitals. The evacuation was swift and efficient. But even at four in the morning the streets were still populated; authorities had thrown up a non-negotiable security barricade...
On another day in the same theater, Captain Karen Walden (Meg Ryan), piloting a medevac helicopter, relieves a unit pinned down by a superior Iraqi force. In the course of this operation her craft is downed, and she and her crew fight off enemy attacks all night long. The next...
So widely accepted is this notion of civic decline that both Bill Clinton and Bob Dole have been exhorting Americans to pull up their socks. (Rhetoric is free; programs cost money. Besides, who isn't for volunteerism?) Clinton has used a series of Executive actions regarding teen smoking, gun sales...
The force of the bomb sheared off the outer wall of Building 131 and left a smoking crater 85 ft. across and 35 ft. deep where the truck had been parked. The shock wave blew in windows and pulverized reinforced concrete, creating a blizzard of slashing, crushing projectiles. Windows in...