Word: warred
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...tobacco in a blockbuster report. Frightened smokers promptly resolved to give up the habit; some scared souls stubbed out cigarettes on the spot. Last week the Federal Government marked the 25th anniversary of that first alarm with a new Surgeon General's report that charts the progress in the war against tobacco. The past quarter-century has seen "a revolution in smoking behavior," declared C. Everett Koop, the current Surgeon General. "In the 1940s and '50s, smoking was chic; now, increasingly, it is shunned." But, he continued, tobacco is still "the single most important preventable cause of death, responsible...
REAGAN wrote his own chapter in the history of the cold war by overseeing the largest peacetime buildup of the armed forces in history. This buildup, however, has not necessarily led to greater security because of the great corruption and inefficiency which has festered in the Pentagon during his tenure. The scandals are numerous and widespread, ranging from the trading of top-secret information to mere collaboration between military officials and corporate contractors. Of course, nowadays, one can barely distinguish between...
Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell, who gave the central speech in the service, said King was "hated, feared and finally killed because he spoke in prophetic terms" against the Vietnam war and against the United States' "failure to continue its war against poverty and inequality at home...
...much for the domino theory. Despite China's power to stalemate the Korean War, and the U.S. defeat in Viet Nam, capitalism has flourished in Asia -- a painful irony when one considers the price paid by successive American governments to contain the Commies...
...took some gunboat diplomacy to bring the area under British sovereignty. The Treaty of Nanking in 1842 ended the First Anglo-Chinese War and transferred Hong Kong to the crown. In 1898 the mainland region later known as the New Territories was added under the 99-year lease agreement. The only disruption of the tenancy was the Japanese occupation during World War...