Word: war-torn
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Rarely can Americans fathom what goes on outside the United states. Maybe the widespread poverty and violence in American cities approximate the conditions of poor, war-torn Third World countries, but the conflict we see at home will always be the conflict of a rich society...
Like the 1940s movie heroines that preceded her, Griffith's character is smart, beautiful, and brave. After she volunteers to replace a downed U.S. agent in war-torn Germany, she has to depend on her ability to speak German, the invaluable training she's learned from cloak and dagger maneuvers in her favorite movies, and, in the inevitable pinch, her lover...
...war-torn El Salvador, Fisher led separate negotiation workshops to end bitter feuding between FMLN guerrilla leaders and the government of Alfredo Cristiani...
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia--Serbs in Bosnia-Hercegovina proclaimed their own state yesterday in a move that raised fears of bloodshed in the multiethnic republic, but hopes increased that peace might hold in war-torn Croatia...
...however, some daring naturalists are starting to suggest that just as a smashed vase can be pieced back together and a war-torn cathedral reconstructed stone by stone, so too the battered remnants of natural masterpieces -- bogs and fens, forests and prairies, deserts and coral reefs -- may eventually be restored to some semblance of former glory. In at least a few spots around the globe, the dreamers say, humanity may be able to go back to Eden...