Word: final
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...Thailand, over which thousands of tons of rice and other goods could be trucked in. But aid officials now sense a willingness to cooperate among Cambodian officials. It remains to be seen what will be the impact of the new attitude. Some 180,000 Vietnamese troops are preparing a final offensive against Pol Pot's surviving forces. Their attack could drive hundreds of thousands more into refugee camps in Thailand, where so many Cambodians have already sought to escape the tragedy of their homeland...
...vignettes of battle scenes-half-crazed English soldiers fighting naked at Agincourt, defeated German troops stumbling drunkenly from the First Marne-are as telling as his descriptions of the pettifoggery, vanity and incompetence of commanders and politicians. Together with an introductory section recapitulating ancient wars and a final chapter previewing the next (and last), Humble incisively analyzes 18 great victories from the day of the longbow to the era of the missile. The book is superbly illustrated, with excellent battlefield maps...
About half the class voted in last week's preliminary balloting, which narrowed the field of 73 candidates to 16, and again in the final election, Koivumaki said...
...additional matches yesterday that did not count toward the final score, Libby Pierpont and Wendy Sonnabend easily dispensed with their Jumbo foes...
Luckily for the Crimson, the final time they heard the public address system's obscene whine, they didn't care what it sounded like. "The final Harvard goal was scored by Dave Conners...