Word: bareheadedness
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Two days later, Lebanese soldiers surrounding Nahr al-Bared had a chance to rest during the cease-fire. "They are a very tough enemy," said one special-forces soldier, sitting in the garden of a small mosque that the army had requisitioned. "They don't surrender. They will all fight...
A bareheaded major sat on a stool among his soldiers, two constantly ringing cellphones and a walkie-talkie before him. He apologized for refusing to discuss the fighting with his visitors and instead handed out fragrant gardenia blooms plucked from the mosque's garden. Sitting among the soldiers were several...
(2 of 2) The advent of terrorism carried out in Islam's name - in Madrid, London and elsewhere - has deepened the rancor in the debate. Days after the most recent plot to blow up airliners over the Atlantic was uncovered by British intelligence, Muslim leaders used the renewed focus on...
Take a single sentence. Take a sentence of Manchester's, on Churchill's funeral: "When his flag-draped coffin moved across the old capital, drawn by naval ratings, and bareheaded Londoners stood trembling in the cold, they mourned not only him and all he had meant, but all they had...
A President, if artful, can transcend mere policy and become an avatar of an era. What difference will the final ascension of the baby-boom generation make in terms of the American spirit, the cultural zeitgeist? The irresistible Kennedy parallel would suggest that the symbolism of a Clinton presidency could...