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BOLT-HOLE
- A place of escape or refuge.
- Usage: Report on U.S. Marines progress in attempting to clear out pockets of resistance in Baghdad following the apparent collapse of organized resistance by both the Iraqi regular army and the Republican Guard.
Source: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.
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CEAUSESCU
- Nicholae Ceausescu, a Communist official who was leader of Romania from 1965 until he was overthrown and killed in December 1989, during a revolution sparked after he ordered the Romanian army to fire on antigovernment demonstrators.
- Usage: Coverage of press briefing where U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld compared the fall of Saddam Hussein to that of several dictators in the 20th Century.
Source: Various on-line resources.
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JUBILANT
- Exultingly joyful.
- Usage: Live coverage of the toppling of a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's Firdos Square, an event that would come to symbolize the collapse of Hussein's rule in Iraq.
Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.
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