Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surface, Birdy is a crazy novel. But Birdy has a response: "There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something...Maybe crazy people are the ones who see things clear but work out a way to live with...
...crawled across the finish line in 3:29.59 I would've been happy," she tells me. She says, "I just though it'd be fun." She's modest. She says she "wasn't aware" of her position until near the end of the race. "I just wanted to qualify for the Boston Marathon," she says...
...miles? "It's road racing, which is a different kind of distance running. You're just going out there because you enjoy what you're doing. There's lots of time to think. You get real tired at the end but at that point, it's easier to keep running--it'd take a lot longer to walk to the finish...
Predicted a Western diplomat in Kenya: "It's the end." Indeed, Amin was facing his worst crisis yet. His Soviet-supplied military machine, which once boasted 20,000 troops and a flock of MiG fighters, was falling apart under a plodding but determined advance by a mere 4,000 Tanzanian troops and a miscellaneous collection of Ugandan exiles. Since early February, this force had been moving north from the border that Amin barged across last fall in an effort to buck up his tough-guy image by seizing a piece of Tanzanian territory. For weeks Amin's regime...
...year several of Big Daddy's military units mutinied. Seeking to give his men something to cheer about, Amin decided to make good on an old boast that he would seize a patch of frontier territory in Tanzania that he insisted belonged to Uganda. By year's end, Tanzania's Nyerere had decided to pay Amin back in kind. His invasion force, small but well enough supplied with missiles that it was able to shoot down most of Uganda's air force in a matter of weeks, found Uganda's army surprisingly weak. When Amin...