Word: lincoln
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Just before half time of a scoreless soccer match between Bradford City and Lincoln City last Saturday, fire broke out in the main grandstand of the Bradford stadium in Yorkshire. With a strong breeze blowing, the wooden structure, with 3,000 people inside, was engulfed by flames and dense black smoke within five minutes. Some 10,000 fans were in the stadium and millions more were watching on television as adults and children fled from the grandstand with their hair and clothes on fire. Many threw themselves onto the soccer field to smother the flames...
...genuine healing, a reconciliation, of celebrating the 40 years during which the U.S. and West Germany have been strong allies. In a thoroughly American way, Reagan wanted finally to clear the past off the highway, as if it were some sort of old wreck. He wished to proceed, as Lincoln said in his second Inaugural, "with malice toward none, with charity...
...witnesses," he said. "Hope leads us, if we are prepared to trust it, toward what our President Lincoln called 'the better angels of our nature.' And then, rising above all this cruelty, out of this tragic and nightmarish time, beyond the anguish, the pain and suffering, and for all time, we can and must pledge: Never again...
...halves of Viet Nam were officially merged in 1976, but the differences remain striking. In general, life in the North seems more pinched, commodities less abundant. Ho's tomb, a sort of brutalist recasting of the Lincoln Memorial in concrete, seems the emblematic postwar construction project. There is, meanwhile, a casual, envious resentment of the mellower South...
...press secretary, is that "it is very tough for Americans to stick in long situations. We are always looking for a quick fix." But nuclear missiles make the unconditional-surrender kind of war an anachronism. Viet Nam raised, and left unsolved for the next conflict, the question posed by Lincoln Bloomfield, an M.I.T. professor of political science who once served on Jimmy Carter's National Security Council: "How is it that you can 'win' so that when you leave two years later you do not lose the country to those forces who have committed themselves to victory at any cost...