Word: scatteredness
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The city was devastated by mortar and automatic weapons duels. Sunlight leaks through bullet holes in the roof over an outdoor bar at the Hotel Chadian, as guests sip drinks beside an empty swimming pool. Traffic winds slowly through the rubble-strewn commercial district along Charles de Gaulle Avenue, where...
It was poor Hans Strahl, stumbling innocent in blue smoke, who happened to be fair in line with the mouth of one of those cannons just when a charge of grape went off into his chest...As one ball of grape tore Hans's head off, others burst it into...
Those harsh words, first spoken at a closed-door party committee meeting in Warsaw, were broadcast throughout the nation on state radio. They appeared to be a stern, perhaps final warning to Solidarity to end the scattered strikes and sit-ins that have cost the economy more than $100 million...
Pale but primly attired in a tan silk blouse and wool skirt that would have made a Madeira mother proud, Harris described for the court in harrowing detail a growing desire to kill herself, an urge compounded by Tarnower's infidelity and her own job pressures. Things were not...
The leftists, however, although they had received a heavy beating from government forces, were hardly ready to concede defeat. Said a commander of a 300-man guerrilla contingent of the Forces of Popular Liberation: "The offensive has. many stages. It may take three or four more months." The guerrillas, in...