Word: warred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crowe knows, past protestations by the Kremlin of its peaceful intentions have been belied by the size and menace of its war machine. Soviet strategists have traditionally stressed that the best defense is a good offense. To the outside world, the result has often looked more offensive than defensive. Gorbachev and Akhromeyev tried to convince Crowe that something fundamental has changed. "Nonoffensive defense" is a key part of the vocabulary of Soviet "new thinking," and it was a major theme of Crowe's tour. The U.S.S.R. would launch its missiles, he was told, only in retaliation, never in a first...
...window with the safety off." He deliberately shifts his Peugeot station wagon into low gear as he enters Palestinian villages to steady his aim in the event of attack. "There is a Jewish intifadeh now, and it can't be stopped," he says. "We're headed for war...
Most settlers realize that Jewish vigilantism makes for bad public relations at the least, but some Israelis fear the extremists have something more drastic in mind. As they see it, the situation will ultimately deteriorate into a full-scale war, what the more rabid call the "Big Bang," enabling Israel to expel the West Bank's 980,000 Arabs. Explains Domb: "Killing Arabs doesn't help our cause. That's why we talk about expulsions. It's more humane...
...effacing grain. Trained as an architect at M.I.T., he took up furniture making after studying with spiritual leader Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry, India, during the 1930s. "The negation of the ego," says Nakashima, "is central in Indian philosophy. If you can negate your ego, you can develop." During World War II, Nakashima advanced his craft in an Idaho detention camp for Japanese Americans. There he learned about prejudice. He also learned woodworking from a fellow internee who had been trained as a carpenter in Japan...
...ending Britain's naval supremacy. Even Winston Churchill conceded that the 823-ft., 42,000-ton German battleship was a "masterpiece of naval construction." Rather than emerging as the scourge of the Atlantic, however, the Bismarck fell victim to a superior British force in one of World War II's most spectacular naval engagements. Only nine days after leaving on her first combat mission, she was sunk on May 27, 1941, with all but about 115 of her 2,200-man crew aboard...