Word: verdun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Their deaths in foreign French fields scattered from Verdun to Ypres remind us that we are ultimately responsible to a higher calling than just formals and final papers...
...than one good reason for Deep Blue to give Garry Kasparov a rematch [TECHNOLOGY, May 26]. First, the chess champion gave another chance to IBM when he defeated Deep Blue last year. Second, Kasparov is a dynamic player whose participation is instrumental to IBM's soaring reputation. PIERRE GARON Verdun...
...trip they took together that Gingrich claims changed his life forever. It occurred when he was 14 and went with his father to the World War I battlefield of Verdun, France. They wandered the fields, scene of ghastly sacrifice, with its solemn tombs for soldiers from each country, and then slipped into the ossuary. But there were private stairs leading down to a basement, walled off by glass windows that had been painted black to hide what was inside. The paint had peeled, so they decided to take a peek...
...Gaudet is fond of using phrases like "it's a man's game out there," "guys putting their bodies on the line," "setting the tone," "playing physical when it counts." You'd almost think from listening to him that he was a general on the front line at Verdun in a past life, now coaxing his troops to execute just one more bayonet charge...
These types of games have all the figurative mud and slime of Verdun or Passchendacle, and two types of fans hate them to the pith of their marrow--the neutrals and the purists. Very often, those groups are one in the same, which is just a coincidence...