Word: scars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Signs of battle scar the road from Basra to Baghdad as well. A dozen immobilized Iraqi tanks rest beside the highway, some with gaping holes in their armor, others mere burned-out hulks. The ruined tanks are a powerful reminder of U.S. arms sales to Iran. Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz attributes his country's equipment losses largely to American shipments of TOW antitank and Hawk antiaircraft missiles to Tehran...
...tiny space, but that was not always a good * thing. "Once they put in a tough young man who said he was convicted of spying for China," Begun said. "He threatened me and then beat me up." Begun pulled up a leg of his trousers to display a scar left from the beating. The guards, he said, ruled it a fight and punished both...
...late. Reverberations of steel on linoleum echoed off Dave's mad cackle, as the spheroid struggled down the hallway, fighting for maximum velocity. Bouncing like a racquetball from hell it finally impacted, expressing its tensile strength in an ugly, permanent scar on our tutor's door...
...this disaster throws a pitiless light on the way the President does his job, confirming the worst fears of both his friends and his critics. Simultaneously stumbling into the Iran fiasco and allowing a bizarre scam to fund the contras to take place had an impact powerful enough to scar Teflon precisely because the events seemed to reveal personal characteristics that were both fundamental and worrisome...
Philip's homosexuality has been far easier than his father's. Blessedly born to a different generation, he has good friends, New York's gay nightlife, and for the moment, Eliot. But Philip hasn't escaped scar-free. His tortured, secretive adolescence, spent masturbating in the company of porn magazines and wishing his same-sex yearnings would pass, has left him unsure and dependent. He grasps his lover so tightly that the more worldly and self-assured Eliot eventually crumbles throught his fingers...