Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gone mad, the reptilian brain taking over, the savage part of us wading through gore wearing ivory-handled pistols: war as a picnic of cannibals. The Icelandic author Halldor Laxness found the murderous fascination of war in the Old Norse texts of Scaldic poetry, the hymns of the "kill spree." The poets were particular about the best light and color for battle: "The hour before daybreak is all right because it lends to the crimson of liquid blood a nice admixture of an azure sky and the silvery gray of the fading moon...
...when events--including the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and U.S. insecurity induced by the hostage crisis--had chilled superpower relations. But the Administration's earlier stridency on E1 Salvador and apocalyptic pronouncements on the Soviets and nuclear war helped, if anything, to sour enthusiasm for its massive military shopping spree, and the apparent drift towards East-West confrontation of some kind was sufficiently unnerving to provoke the first large scale American public discussion of nuclear war in two decades. For whatever reason--and certainly the reliably grim economic news is a prime factor the support for increased defense spending which...
...captain Rich Doyle started the scoring spree with 1:24 gone in the fourth stanza. He took a feed from the Crimson's leading scorer, freshman Steve Bartenfelder, and heat UMass netminder Chris Benedict with a blast to the left-hand corner, tying the game...
...recent insanity in Jerusalem has given the Arab world another excuse to indulge in an orgy of self-serving hypocrisy. Accusations of the Israeli government's complicity in the mosque shooting spree resound from almost every corner of the Arab world, and echo in the chambers of the United Nations. Egypt is the one noble exception...
Lane shows no connection, implicit or explicit, between the shooting spree--which Prime Minister Begin promptly and officially condemned--and government policy. The Begin government, of course, is the one that concluded the peace treaty with Egypt, and the one that is risking its political life by forcibly dislodging militant settlers from the Sinai in order to meet the terms of that treaty. These are hardly examples of extremism...