Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bait to draw the ! Viet Cong out so we could inflict heavy casualties. We lost about 25 dead and 175 wounded; we killed about 500 of them. Their bodies were scraped up by bulldozers, just like in the movie. For that battle our platoon was on the inner perimeter, but two weeks later we went back into the same area and got hit by an ambush, like the one that gets Elias. We took about 30 casualties, and I don't think we got one of them...
...attempt to bridge East and West, Khashoggi does make distinctions. His image in the West as the ultimate voluptuary both pleases and annoys him. "People in the West believe they have a higher morality than we do. But in fact we have a higher inner morality. All of us do naughty things from time to time. But when it comes to the really naughty things, we think twice...
...from hashish to morphine-laced pills. In Poland, groups of addicts travel to the outskirts of Warsaw to buy sacks of poppy stalks from farmers, which they use to concoct homemade heroin. And in the Soviet Union, a young man rolls up his sleeve to show television viewers an inner forearm riddled with needle marks...
SURVIVORS WERE TOLD they would receive free transit to their final destination and had the option of leaving that night if they were bound for New York City. Other passengers were put up at the Sheraton Hotel in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Most of the passengers were travelling by themselves and were given single rooms...
...homosexuals, among others, in the 1960s, while not yet complete, have begun to be accepted as facts of our lives. In the 1980s it is O.K. to be divorced, O.K. to be a single parent, O.K. to be different. Slowly, mysteriously, Americans are learning to live according to inner judgments. We are learning to profit from history: rejecting crusaders and romantic ideologies, widening the middle ground...