Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During World War II. Rogers was a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps and earned a Silver Star for driving several officers, including General George S. Patton's chief of staff, through enemy lines in French Morocco.
Instead, it appeared a standoff was continuing--and would continue through the night--inside the El Salvador Sheraton Hotel's VIP Tower, more than 17 hours after rebels surprised the government with their assault in an upper-class neighborhood of this capital.
I certainly did not expect my contact with literature in college to mirror a nightmare attributed to British philosopher Bertrand Russell. He once dreamed that he was in a giant library watching a library assistant update the stacks. As she walked through with a bucket, she picked up volumes, glanced...
If a reunified Germany aligned itself with NATO, the Soviet Union would fear an invasion from the West and would arm accordingly. Such fears would not be irrational. German armies have attacked the Soviet Union twice in the last 75 years by marching through Eastern Europe.
"In Israel there is a generation that is fed up with war, especially the generation that went through many wars," Aruri said. He added that for the first time in Israel's history, "we have all the Arab countries and most of the influential Palestinian organizations and the highest majority...