Word: bloodlessness
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...Make War is all the more chilling for including such bloodless assessments. A hybrid of manual and analysis, the book describes what warriors and their equipment can and cannot do. Dunnigan is no recruiting sergeant. Details of ground, air and sea operations, nuclear and chemical capabilities and logistics are rendered in a neutral tone that amounts to wry understatement on human nature. On the standard of living at the front: "It is very low. The overriding goal is not to get hit by flying objects." On looting: "Arming a man still seems to change his concepts of property rights...
...poetry was bloodless, as his own acute critical sense told him, and his faith was in Art. His parents, with whom he often lived and traveled until he was middleaged, were disappointed that he was to be neither Byron nor the Bishop...
...twelve years has transformed this North African desert wasteland. In 1969, armed with Islamic zeal and a near fanatical belief that he was the heir to Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's pan-Arabic nationalism, Gaddafi and eleven other young officers deposed the conservative King Idris in a bloodless coup. Gaddafi has since established iron political control of his countrymen, largely by spreading Libya's abundant oil wealth among them. Says Fouad Zlitni, a true believer: "The people decide everything, but it is the thoughts of Brother Gaddafi which guide us on to the proper path...
Gaddafi came to power in 1969. Then a captain in the Libyan army, he staged a bloodless coup against the country's effete, Westward-leaning monarch, King Idris. Shortly after the coup, Gaddafi proclaimed the principles of his governmental policy, which included the elimination of all foreign bases (including the American-run Wheelus Air Base near Tripoli), neutrality in foreign policy and national unity in a country that until then had been sharply divided along provincial and tribal lines. A year later, Gaddafi announced that not only had these objectives been met but that the minimum wage had been doubled...
...just for practice, part of a cram course for would-be Democratic candidates who learned a hard and valuable lesson from last year's Republican landslide: backslapping, hand-pumping and getting along still have their uses, but politics is more than ever a cold and complicated science, a bloodless war of expensive software and arcane marketing techniques. No longer can Democrats take for granted a solid blue-collar base or mass backing from minorities. The voter has become increasingly independent of party labels, a finicky comparison shopper among parties, candidates and issues. There are new techniques for wooing this...