Word: apartness
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...years after Saddam's shattering defeat in the Gulf War, the Iraqi dictator remains in full control of the Baghdad government ... Every step he takes has been aimed at buttressing his authority ... Saddam's power base remains solid ... 'When things threaten to fall apart,' says Baghdad novelist Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, 'you stick with the man who can hold it together.' ... Citizens are unlikely to be moved by the U.S. report made public last week cataloging just how brutally Saddam's forces behaved in the Gulf War. According to Pentagon investigators, Iraq tortured and killed 1,082 Kuwaiti civilians and violently...
...Marines always prepare for the worst. At 4:30 a.m., about 150 Marines, backed by Humvees armed with .50-cal. machine guns, push out in a staggered formation, about 10 yds. apart on both edges of the dirt road. To the right, we hear explosions and loud shooting. As we advance, the noise of fighting is joined by the frantic barking of dogs and the lowing of cattle. At a point where the track forks right, a group of Marines sets up mortars and fires them into a building believed to be a reinforced bunker. The building goes...
...students entering Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., schools were shuttered entirely in Prince Edward County, Va., and white families across the South put their children into private schools. By 1971, the court had endorsed busing to overcome the residential segregation that was keeping black and white children apart. Particularly in the South, the integration drive worked, as the share of black children attending majority white schools rose from 0.1% in 1960 to a high...
...rivalry of Oxford and Cambridge in sport therefore is a thing apart, a matter between themselves, something to be settled by 'young 'varsity gentlemen' without the pother and popular clamor which are the inevitable concomitants of intercollegiate contests in the United States...
...says. “Anything is possible on the Mainstage. Witches can disappear in a cloud of smoke, a Berlin nightclub can appear where there was darkness before and can disappear as quickly as it came, and a house with working electricity and plumbing can split apart and turn around before your eyes...