Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chamber on the 24th floor of downtown Atlanta's Colony Square office building. The door, unmarked except for a taped-up piece of white paper bearing the handwritten designation 22-A, is always kept locked. Only six persons have the key. Known as "the situation room," it resembles a combat-ready headquarters. The beige walls are decorated with charts, graphs and maps that reflect Carter's strategy. The barnstorming schedules for the candidate, his wife Rosalynn and their three sons and wives, plus Mondale and his wife, are traced by grease pencils on plastic sheets taped over three large maps...
...first mission, but the talks were so successful that he began regular voyages by missile ship. At the third meeting, with Rabin present, the talks moved away for the first time from strictly military matters to political concerns. The main subject: an alliance between Christians and moderate Moslems to combat the Palestinians and the Moslem leftists...
Sanford's point is that Nader needlessly either denies or tries to conceal such trivialities out of his obsession with protecting the myth of an unblemished David in mortal combat with a corrupt Goliath...
...their shields with their assegais and roaring the war cry usutu!, the warrior impis, arrayed like the right and left horns of the buffalo, would begin encircling the foe. Then the main unit-the head-would sweep forward so that the Zulus could use their assegais in close combat. During the twelve years before he was assassinated by his brother in 1828, Shaka built a Zulu empire that extended over hundreds of thousands of square miles and contained some 2 million inhabitants...
...population and has helped to desegregate some of the country's best hotels and restaurants. He is far better known, however, for his kragdadigheid (iron-fistedness). He has defended the actions of his police to the hilt, declaring them to be "in the forefront of the fight to combat Communism [which is] infiltrating the country." Asked why the police did not use rubber bullets during the June rioting in Soweto in which 176 were killed, Kruger replied: "Rubber bullets give the impression the police have rubber guns. They cannot protect life and property with rubber guns, and I have...