Word: ticktock
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...Pentagon. In mid-research, however, two unexpected events -- the invasion of Panama and the gulf war -- forced Woodward, a former naval officer, to change course. Instead of analyzing military decision making, he exploited the sources he had already developed and wrote what is known in the trade as a "ticktock": a detailed reconstruction of how and why the nation was led into battle. In an introductory note to the book, Woodward, an assistant managing editor of the Washington Post, rather pretentiously describes this exercise as falling "somewhere between newspaper journalism and history...