Word: foray
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...really saddens us to see the Undergraduate Council huff and puff and blow its own house down. Ignored by practically every student with something better to do than fill out "Hello Day" slips, the council's recent foray into cheerleading--its so-called "Spirit Week"--was decidedly spirit-less. Is this where the council's vigorously-promised and much-touted issue of "relevance" has brought...
Forbes' political experience makes a relative novice like Pat Buchanan look like George Washington. His only turn in public life was as chairman of the board of International Broadcasting for eight years, a position that gave him a little exposure to Washington. His foray into campaign politics so far consists of advising Christine Todd Whitman in her successful run for the New Jersey governorship in 1993. So he takes comfort in the example of Wendell Willkie, the utilities executive and political neophyte who grabbed the G.O.P. nomination in 1940. Forbes is willing to spend $10 million of his own money...
Infowar evolved with every recent U.S. military foray. In the first day of the Persian Gulf War, Air Force stealth planes armed with precision-guided munitions blinded Saddam by knocking out his communications network and electrical power in Baghdad. The Pentagon launched a sophisticated psy-ops campaign against Haiti's military regime to restore deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Using market-research surveys, the Army's 4th Psychological Operations Group divided Haiti's population into 20 target groups and bombarded them with hundreds of thousands of pro-Aristide leaflets appealing to their particular affinities. Before U.S. intervention, the CIA made...
Then, in the late 1980s, came the proposed parking area and Weeks' concern. His 1988 foray made it clear that the tomb wasn't as dull as Burton had thought. Elaborate carvings covered the walls and referred to Ramesses II, whose own tomb was just 100 ft. away. The wall inscriptions on the companion crypt mentioned two of Ramesses' 52 known sons, implying some of the royal offspring might have been buried within. And then came last week's astonishing announcement...
Accordingly, on this latest foray, Marlowe not only interviewed official sources but also sought out ordinary Algerians. When she phoned the mother of a friend who had fled the country, the woman begged her not to visit. "She was afraid I'd get killed, and it would be her fault," says Marlowe. "But when I showed up at her apartment, she threw her arms around me and cried...