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Word: would (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...World War II, the U.S.S. Enterprise was an aircraft carrier. She sank 71 enemy ships and downed 911 planes. Severely damaged by kamikaze attack at the end of the war, she would later be sold for scrap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Evolving Culture | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...Newspapers The first weekly appeared in Antwerp; it would be 1650 before the first daily was published, in Leipzig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Evolving Culture | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...Thomas Paine His printed pamphlet Common Sense would inspire the Declaration of Independence; his American Crisis rallied Washington's troops at Valley Forge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Evolving Culture | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...have quit unless he?d gotten all the immunity guarantees he needed." Yeltsin also asked Russia?s people for a New Year?s gift in return. "I want to beg forgiveness for your dreams that never came true," he said in an emotional TV address. "And also I would like to beg forgiveness for having not justified your hopes." In other words, he wrote his own political epitaph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Yeltsin Declared Himself Y2K Incompatible | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...plane, but after Pakistan intervened, the Taliban suddenly surrounded the plane with men and armored vehicles and forbade an Indian attack." As the hijackers left Kandahar airport accompanied by the prisoners whose release they'd won, the Taliban promised India that they wouldn't be given asylum, and would have to leave Afghanistan within 10 hours. Then again, the Taliban periodically say Osama Bin Laden's left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hands Tied, India Caves in to Hijackers | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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