Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exists in Ulster, a conflict of unseen gunmen and clandestine bombings, the instincts of an army are dangerous. By nature, an army feels uneasy without a clear enemy; and in Ulster, there are no clear enemies. The British army has, unfortunately, judged their enemy to be the Catholic community. Subject to the constant attacks of IRA, it has been obliged to concede that the entire Catholic population is in hostile sympathy with the paramilitaries. Indeed, given the secretive nature of the IRA, it has had no choice but to operate on the assumption that every Catholic is a potential terrorist...
...terrorist is another man's freedom fighter," goes the old political maxim, which is one reason why terrorists are so hard to identify. Nonetheless, an expert in the subject, New York City Police Department Terrorism Specialist Captain Frank Bolz, estimates that there are 140 clearly defined terrorist organizations active in the world today. Some, like West Germany's Red Army Faction or Italy's Red Brigades, nihilistically seek to destroy the societies that shelter them, and give little coherent thought to ultimate goals. Others, like the Sandinista guerrillas of Nicaragua or the Islamic Marxists of Iran, have...
...aging gracefully. He can't turn the economy around in ten months, and anybody who suggests he can is a damn fool." Donald Frey, chairman of Bell & Howell, who has considerable doubts about Carter's preachy moralism, nonetheless gives the President high marks on one subject: "On international economic issues, Carter is dead right. There is no ambiguity about where Carter, [Chief Trade Negotiator Robert] Strauss and Blumenthal stand. They are opposed to protectionism...
...issue on the merits of the case presented to him." And the President does tend to consider issues one by one. A senior Administration official asserts: "Although he's a very fast learner, he doesn't move easily from one concept to another. You can open one subject, and he'll quickly have it mastered. Then he'll master a second one. But he often doesn't see the relationship between one and another, despite a really first-class mind." It is also true that Carter has committed himself to seemingly incompatible economic goals...
...bills. T.S. Eliot broke his block by writing poems in French. (Dabbling in lesser languages removes pressure to perform in mother tongue.) Tom Wolfe, to tally blocked on his first famous article, a story about customized cars for Esquire, wrote a really socko memorandum to his editor on the subject. The editor ran the memo as the article. Wolfe now writes all his articles as memos. (On the other hand he is at least three years late with his current book...