Word: endlessly
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...choose not to send American soldiers to Ethiopia, where yet another military dictator was abusing the basic human rights of many and causing a famine that killed hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians? The examples of abusive human rights practices by petty dictators from all over the world are endless. The reason why the United States became involved in Panama, it can at least be conjectured, is because the political instablity that General Noriega represented was too great a financial risk for the president and the nation to handle. Control of the Panama Canal had become too ambiguous, so America sent...
...Balkans, in Rwanda and Burundi, in the streets of Los Angeles and Karachi. But the imagination of the world pays little heed to the sensibilities of such conflicts. Minds have been polarized by the cold war and fascinated by the mighty mushroom clouds of 1945--by the imminence of endless death from the radiance of a thousand suns. Nevertheless, in the shadow of that terrifying splendor lurks a history of immense human hatreds, parables we ignore at our peril. The war in Asia was waged mercilessly on all sides. U.S. Major General Curtis LeMay, the man who took charge...
...excuse Susan Smith's crime. But if we're going to dwell on her case for anything other than voyeuristic thrills, we have to forsake the easy, self-distancing explanations like "evil" and acknowledge that the unthinkable is always lurking within the familiar. That the "love" we endlessly celebrate can be a source, sometimes, of endless sorrow...
...culture of machismo and ego, McCain says, Burke relies on patience. "She has these endless meetings. They're so frustrating it's unbelievable. Everybody vents their spleen. Everybody plants their feet in concrete," he says. "And then she begins to talk, spelling out the principles that everyone wants to preserve. After a while, the issue ripens out, and people begin to come to consensus, but it's a very painful process...
...effort that cracked Soviet cables and revealed the existence of an extensive spy network in the U.S. to steal classified nuclear information. Among the members of the Soviet ring apparently identified in the cables: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, whose execution for espionage in 1953 has been the subject of endless investigation and debate...