Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they get irritated about being such a disposable class of human beings in the world. If women are the victims, why is it the men who wind up dead? Not so long before Woolf wrote, for example, World War I destroyed an entire generation of European men on the battlefield -- 8.5 million of them. Woolf and her sisters did not fight in that war. Similarly, the names of more than 58,000 men are on the wall of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington -- and those of eight women...
...impossible not to sympathize with Mark. Is there anyone incapable of falling in love with Gene Tierney? She was quite possibly the most beautiful woman to grace Hollywood's Golden Age. Her patrician cheekbones were a battlefield where light and shadows made love. Her mouth, a swathe of pomegranate, revealed glimpses of charmingly imperfect teeth. However, it was her eyes that assured her immortality. Drops of black fire, raindrops at night, Gene Tierney's eyes invited annihilation...
Originally volunteers followed armies onto the battlefield to care for victims. Now it is the armies themselves that must accompany humanitarian organizations to the front line if aid is to be distributed. As the angels of mercy in Bosnia have learned, it is all too easy for combatants to stop, steal or hold hostage the shipments, thrusting the troops protecting them into the middle of the war. Air strikes -- something the U.S. and its allies have resisted -- may now be necessary to relieve Canadian troops in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, a U.N.-declared "safe" enclave surrounded by Serbs...
...close to Lee, who named Longstreet his senior subordinate when he assumed cammand of the Army of Northern Virgina, calling Longstreet "the staff in my right hand. " He became Lee's most reliable general and "handled his command with the confidence and calmness that became a hallmark of his battlefield leadership...
...superb though humanly flawed general. He was certainly the best subordinate commander in Lee's army and perhaps the best in any army on either side during the Civil War. By looking fairly at the records of the other generals, like Lee, and dealing seriously with the battlefield conditions of the Civil War, Wert provides a credible basis from which to evaluate Longstreet's performance...