Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This will continue to compound the dilemma facing many Catholics--how to reconcile rigid doctrinal teachings with prevailing social norms and the demands of modern life...
...results were visible in the tracer fire illuminating Mogadishu's sky. This time the U.N. was one of the combatants. For four nights the Somalian capital echoed with deafening explosions as U.S. AC-130H ground-support planes and Cobra attack helicopters pounded the capital. Aidid's compound, arms caches and other locations took withering fire. Before U.N. ground forces advanced on his main base, a loudspeaker truck gave his gunmen several warnings to surrender. But soldiers came under fire as they moved in, provoking heavy retaliation from...
...Aidid himself, remained at large. "He's not out of business," said U.S. Major General Thomas Montgomery, deputy commander of the U.N. forces in Mogadishu, "but I bet he's pretty shaky today." To keep pressure on the warlord, a second air assault pounded the area near his private compound for 25 minutes early Sunday...
...were killed. In his regular Saturday-morning radio broadcast, President Clinton said that the action was "essential to send a clear message to the armed gangs." That message was pounded home shortly after midnight on Sunday when a second air assault fired on an area near Aidid's private compound...
Sensationalism is all we have in the television age. We watch our wars on the screen. We watch riots and hurricanes live on CNN. People all over the country called the Waco fire department to tell them that the Branch Davidian compound was on fire...