Word: eye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know you are a patch of life cut to its own very nature, you cannot fail (or succeed), because awareness grows as you explore that patch of life given to you, as you grow out of the spoiled-child's eye view of existence...
...Overlord was the toughest of military propositions: an attack by sea against a fortified enemy defense line. The very thought gave Churchill nightmares. He told Eisenhower, "When I think of the beaches of Normandy choked with the flower of American and British youth, and when in my mind's eye I see the tides running red with their blood, I have my doubts. I have my doubts." The Prime Minister was both right and wrong: the scenes of death he envisioned occurred, but the Allies seized the beaches and held them...
...PUBLIC EYE: The Man Who Would Be Ambassador...
From the start, marriage to Jack was not easy for Jackie. There were problems -- his wandering eye, her clothing bills -- but mostly the trouble was that he was constantly running for President. Jackie got what she wanted in that her husband was wealthy, but she had hoped for a life of comfort and perfection in a private world. Faced with a vast, unruly public, she may have fallen back on her father's injunction that an attractive woman should be mysterious, always holding something back to keep people guessing. Jack would take her to parties and then leave her alone...
...joint venture. Vietnamese officials say they'd like to find a peaceful solution, but they also say that giving up the region is non-negotiable. A military analyst told Time that the Vietnamese defense budget has recently increased nearly 50%, largely to beef up its air force with an eye toward protecting the reserves. Says the analyst:"The Vietnamese are not ((equipped)) to take on the Chinese. But you can't discount Vietnamese nationalism...