Word: amercian
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...Garcia Marquez's Amercian peregrinos, Europe is a perilous place, a land of unknown dangers where there are no signposts to guide the traveler. In "Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen," Garcia Marquez writes of Prudencia Linares, and old woman who is making a pilgrimage to see the Pope. As her ship arrives in Naples, the reader is treated to the woman's thoughts: "Every voyage must be like this, she thought, suffering for the first time in her life the sharp pain of being a foreigner, while she leaned over the railing and contemplated the vestiges of so many extinct worlds...
...think that I'm taking this movie too seriously. After all, the makers of Delta Force picked an actual event and then selected an Amercian reaction to it which they felt was more appropriate than the actual reaction. I was forced to decide whether this reaction was actually superior. The success of an actual Delta Force raid on Beirut was so slim as to be ridiculous. The penalty for failure was also too great. If anything, Delta Force is a demonstration of how dangerous such rash, jingoistic actions can be. Of course, it is also a demonstration...
...Class of '20 is now living through its fourth American war. During World War I, most men joined a voluntary Harvard regiment the summer before their junior year. Some men enlisted to fight with the Amercian or French armies or went overseas to help the American Red Cross. By the beginning of the junior year, most members of the Class had been sworn into the Army although only a minority had seen active combat. The armistice came in November of their junior year...
...Jove, Author Halliburton explains, angrily tossing thunderbolts because a whimsical, gay, incorrigible, dramatic, inspired, etc. young Amercian is at the beetling, rugged, sacrosanct, fierce, rugged, granite pinnacle of Mt. Olympus and proposes to spend the night...
...everlasting monument to Amercian affection for Belgium and her people...
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