Word: fighting
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This is Calvino-speak, a language that is always looking for and talking about language, a model of words to fight the entropy of things. Calvino leaves us with a cozy picture of the outcome of evolutionary time, the image of the modern mind: Mr. Palomar falling asleep holding in his dreams the image of a great white ape holding an old rubber tire...
...interception. It's true that this is an important event in the fight against terrorism, but there has been a tremendous amount accomplished in the last year or so that is not as visible as this. People tend to register the things that are visible. But the fact is that through the development of better intelligence and of very good intelligence exchange--I might say $ outstanding with the Italians, for example--we have uncovered, prevented or aborted some 90 terrorist incidents in the last year...
...speeches, the two Senators accused the military of endangering the nation's defense and squandering its assets with interservice bickering. If the U.S. has to go to war anytime soon, charged Goldwater, "these problems will cause Americans to die unnecessarily. Even more, they may cause us to lose the fight...
More than two months after Congress approved $27 million in nonmilitary, "humanitarian" assistance to help Nicaragua's contra rebels in their fight against the Sandinista government, money is finally flowing to the insurgents. As of last week the Nicaraguan Humanitarian Assistance Office, which was set up by the Reagan Administration to distribute the funds, had dispensed $400,000 in aid. But rebel leaders are complaining that supplies, such as food, clothing and medicine, are still not reaching their troops. As a result, they claim, some guerrilla units have had to abandon their hit-and-run war against the Sandinistas...
Westmoreland said Vietnam veterans, who were forced to stage their own homecoming and privately raise funds for their memorial, have been wrongly represented as unwilling to fight the unpopular...