Farah was one of the moderates, a garrulous balding man in his thirties.
* Moderates- to lessen the intensity or extremeness of
......chewing khat and embroiled in fadikudirir........
* Embrolied- to throw into disorder or confusion
.....saw this mission in Somalia as an effort to end starving and bloodshed.....
* Bloodshed-the taking of life
......crew that had decided to go on several unauthorized aerial safari's........
Unauthorized- not endowed with authority
....the second turnabout was more violent.
* Turnabout- a change or rseveral of of direction,trend,policy,role,or character
..It was the cosmopolitan side of Aidid that had encourged earlier hope for success....
* Cosmopolitian- having world wide rather than limited or provincial scope or bearing
Shilling-looked at his watch...
* Shilling- to act as a shill
...small stone houses with tin roofs in a crosshatch of dirt alleyways.
* Crosshatch-to mark with two series of paraell lines that intersect
The convoy lurched foward again ......
* Lurched- to loiter about a place furively
They moved numbly and even a little giddily.
Giddily- lighteartedly silly