Word: fallen
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Weinberger: I justify it because it's necessary. I think we've fallen far behind in our defense expenditures--not expenditures per se, but in our defensive strength. Any briefing on a comparative basis of our strength and Soviet strength, either in conventional or strategic forces, brings us out, I think, in a very inferior position, and it's very dangerous to stay in an inferior position without trying to do something to redress that balance. We have to do quite a lot and do it quickly, because there is along lead time before you can improve your situation. That...
...Aquileia. In a fiery aria laced with coloratura, she swears vengeance. Around her a chorus of barbarians praises Attila's conquests. The scene is an early example of the art of dramatic juxtaposition perfected at the end of the third act of Otello, with lago gloating over his fallen master as the Venetians outside sing the Moor's praises...
While the Soviets have been accelerating their naval buildup, the U.S. in recent years has fallen behind slightly in both new warships and naval aircraft. The Soviet Pacific fleet is now the largest anywhere in the world, totaling 319 armed warships, compared with 171 in the U.S. Seventh Fleet. The Soviet Union has increased its naval tonnage in the Pacific by 18% in just the past three years. Despite the Soviet numerical advantage, American vessels by and large are technically more sophisticated, carry more firepower and have more experienced crews. Because the Seventh Fleet must do double duty, however, patrolling...
...heavy silence has fallen over the subject," concludes Ariès. "When this silence is broken, as it sometimes is in America today, it is to reduce death to the insignificance of an ordinary event that is mentioned with feigned indifference. Either way, the result is the same: neither the individual nor the community is strong enough to recognize the existence of death...
...sort of women who had love affairs and the sort of women who did not. But now she, a woman who did not, did, and with considerable expertise." In A Mythological Subject, a happily married woman begins an affair and torments herself with guilt and questions: "That she had fallen in love meant something. What did it say about herself . . . She did not believe that things simply happened...