Word: warred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Further doubt comes from a study reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine. It reviews the life-spans of parents of all 2,518 Israeli soldiers killed in the 1973 October War, plus parents of 1,128 young men who died in accidents. Conclusion: "No consistent evidence of an elevated risk of death, early or late, after the loss." There was one exception: the death rate rose among widowed and divorced parents who had lost a son, suggesting that support from a spouse lessens grief-related stress. "Rather than emphasize the disruptive power of stress," wrote...
...hard to explain, for on a certain level John Fusco's script is shrewdly calculated. The lads are employed as enforcers by an Englishman (Terence Stamp) who is almost Dickensian in the sentimental kindness he lavishes on lost boys. When he is gunned down in a range war, his wards get to play rebels with a cause, rubbing out authority figures hostile toward high- spirited youth...
...middle-aged couple of Breathing Lessons, are not out to impress us with special interests or personalities. The pair represents that vast majority of Americans who live lives without life-styles. Both characters came of age during the postwar conservatism of the 1950s. After 20 years of depression and war, a future that promised a secure job, a steady mate and two children seemed more than enough. There were, of course, degrees of modest expectations. Maggie recalls the remarks of her childhood friend Serena, just before Serena married a boy named Max: "It's just time to marry, that...
...seems that the cold war is over. Official word came not in the usual communique from the capitals but in a Doonesbury cartoon. A rethinking of the cold war is taking place at higher levels too. When a senior Democratic Senator noted in conversation that the cold war might indeed have ended, he was saying no more than Ronald Reagan said upon his return from the Moscow summit when he talked of the end of the postwar era. Since postwar has always meant cold war, the President was signaling the advent of some historic change...
...cold war really over? No doubt the withdrawal from Afghanistan marks a change. It signifies the demise of the Brezhnev Doctrine, first enunciated with the invasion of Czechoslovakia exactly 20 years ago. Brezhnev declared that socialism will suffer no losses: countries that come under Marxist- Leninism remain under Marxist-Leninism. Afghanistan is the first breach in that doctrine. (Grenada is too small to count.) Enthusiastic believers in the demise of the cold war also point to Gorbachev's words to show that the Soviet Union, apostle of revolution ("national liberation"), has become the defender of stability. A favorite quote...