Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opera kills the season, it will lose $7 million and Bliss, charges the union, will be violating the legal duties he owes the public as an officer of a nonprofit organization. As the week ended, there was much noise, but no harmony whatsoever at the grand and glorious...
...into the air. Propaganda was rife on either side. Iraqi television carried bulletins on the fighting, with commentaries on what "our heroic forces" had done to "the racist Persian enemy." The Iranian media talked of Saddam Hussein's "collusion with Israel." Apparently counting on a quick and glorious kill, Saddam's government initially treated the war as a kind of media event, issuing visas for 300 foreign newsmen and busing many of them to Baghdad from Jordan, across 500 miles of desert...
...with a defeat, however, two cadets have turned in brilliant performances: quarterback Gerryl Bennett (42-82, .512, 566 yards and five touchdowns) and wide receiver Mike Fahnestock (18 catches for 311 yds, and three TDs). While this combo has a ways to go before it makes anyone forget the glorious wartime backfield of Doc Blanchard and Glen Davis, any Crimson hopes of victory must begin with the containment of this pair...
...Vietnam account, Dispatches. Even Fuller's narrator comments that the army doesn't award medals for protecting civilians but for killing Germans; in Vietnam, a high bodycount signalled victory. It is this attitude to survival that enables The Big Red One to bridge the gap between America's most glorious and most dishonorable wars...
Inevitably, many of their would-be captors get flash-fried by Charlie, whom her father calls "one great big Zippo lighter." They are imprisoned for six excruciating months while the agency tries to plumb their powers. Equally inevitably, there is ultimately a vast and glorious incineration at the Shop...