Word: protractedness
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Hidden in mountainous Mindanao in the southern Philippines, Giegie's platoon is fighting a rebellion older than most of its members. Since 1969, the N.P.A., the armed wing of the outlawed Communist Party of the Philippines, has waged what it calls a "protracted people's war" in which a total...
Less than a month after taking office, Ford took a step that many believe doomed his presidency. His full pardon of Nixon for any crimes he may have committed while in office provoked a firestorm of criticism and outrage and led to widespread suspicion that Ford had made a secret...
The U.S. has backed Ethiopia's military intervention on behalf of the beleaguered and unpopular - but internationally recognized - Somali government, in what looks set to be a protracted war that could draw in most of Somalia's neighbors. Washington's reason for supporting the offensive, rather than calling for an...
Remember in the early '80s when BONO suffered from a severe mullet? A stylist improved his look for the Joshua Tree tour in 1987 but made off with his Stetson. U2 learned the ex-staffer had his hat and other garb when she tried to auction them at Christie's...
The image of a person grieving expresses a certain rawness, a singular emotional intensity that, strangely, rarely surfaces in images of the 9/11 aftermath. Artists dealing with acts of terror are often content to represent a more general sense of national grief through abstract images, like the photographs of twisted...