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Word: quails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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There are more imported delicacies available in this city than there have been for years, quail and cheeses liberated from the refrigerators of Kuwaiti sheiks and destined for the tables of privileged Iraqis. But there is almost no medicine for high blood pressure, heart conditions and asthma. Some factories are beginning to shut down, people are hoarding their money, many shopkeepers sit idle. In the diplomatic residences of the fashionable Al- Mansur neighborhood, ambassadors and attaches debate the options for Saddam and the U.S.: almost all are bad, and most end in grief or horror. Among Westerners, there is some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: In The Capital of Dread | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

...original police mug shots of Noriega, face front and silhouette. Does the President enshrine these images as prehistoric men wore totems from which to derive strength? Or is this the beginning of a Terrorist Trophy Room, where the President, who often trains a double-barreled shotgun on Texas quail, can display what he has bagged in the way of bigger game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Read My Ships | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

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