1.   But after a week of massive NATO bombardments, Serb defiance, and harsh criticism from Moscow, Russia is suddenly relevant again.

2.   The thin air left many exhausted and dizzy, while the enemy fighters, tucked away in the caves, were able to escape massive bombardment from American warplanes.

3.   The very rubble created by the massive German bombardment created the conditions in which house-to-house fighting became so fearful and costly for the Nazi invaders.

4.   Instead of attempting to play a waiting game with the hostage-takers, it went first for massive bombardment and then gave in to their demands.

5.   Iranian-backed guerrillas killed an Israeli soldier and wounded two others in an ambush in south Lebanon Sunday that provoked massive retaliatory bombardment, security sources said.

6.   Israeli officials have portrayed the massive bombardment of Lebanon as a high-tech campaign of surgical strikes and smart weapons that avoid civilian casualties.

7.   Massive bombardment of the atoll had little effect, and officers started looking at better ways of routing the Japanese.

8.   Now, limited precision attacks on Taliban lines have turned into massive bombardment, the kind of intensity opposition leaders had been urging for weeks.

9.   The Croatian attack began at dawn Friday with massive bombardment of Knin.

10.   The Croatian attack began at dawn Friday with massive bombardment of Knin, the former Serb stronghold which fell Saturday.