Word: goliath
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...Kuwait's resistance can in no way stand up to Iraq's Goliath force. In the past few days, Iraqi forces have taken severe measures to collectively "punish" the Kuwaiti people. Such measures include: obliterating an entire residential area, blasting and burning houses, and holding public executions of Kuwaitis...
Those close brushes with martyrdom gave Castro and Gaddafi not just new incentives for making mischief against the U.S. but also new prestige in the eyes of others who have their own grievances, of which some may even be legitimate. When he plays Goliath, Uncle Sam elicits boos for himself and applause for the would-be Davids of the Third World...
...solution? An honor code? At a school as large as Harvard, I question whether solutions that presuppose a tight community will work. Is a required ethics course the answer? By college, it's too late to reform character through education. If watching Mr. Rogers and Davey and Goliath couldn't shape the character of at least 10 percent of the members of this generation, it is unlikely that additional instruction will do anything...
SOMETHING quite unusual happened very recently in the boxing establishment. Against all odds, a relatively unknown Buster Douglas overcame the reigning champion of heavyweights, a Goliath-like figure who had made a career of brutality...
This time David didn't slay Goliath, but he didn't get pinned either. Tobasso huffed and puffed...