Word: warred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obvious that there is a scar on the body of our society. Our people condemn the fact that we deployed forces in Afghanistan. They believe it was wrong. But it has also scarred those who participated in the war, especially the young, demobilized from the army. Many say they will never be themselves again. I also participated in the war and was there for 2 1/2 years. I was an older soldier who could endure the scars, but the effect on the young was different...
...Will the Soviet Union build a monument to those who died in Afghanistan, like the monument for the Viet Nam War dead in Washington...
Last week Volume II, Means of Ascent, began to run in the New Yorker. The excerpt details a shameless pattern of deceit in L.B.J.'s early career. Among the juicier disclosures is how Johnson, as a noncombatant in World War II, was able to parlay 13 minutes under enemy fire into a Silver Star, which he then had repeatedly presented to himself at public ceremonies. Alice Glass, who according to Caro was Johnson's mistress as well as the lover of one of his most influential supporters, had a more realistic view of Lyndon's war. "I can write...
...usual selling point of skin-care products is to protect against sun, wind and weather. Now trend-alert cosmetic companies hope to wage a profitable war against an additional foe: pollution. Chanel touts the ability of its new Prevention Serum (price: $50 for 1.35 oz.) to counteract "environmental impurities." Estee Lauder's Skin Defender lotion ($45 for 0.9 oz.) promises to shield against the "onslaught of irritants from pollution." The treatments typically contain sunscreen plus ingredients designed to neutralize so-called free radicals, the highly reactive molecules found in some air pollutants...
...problems that come up." The hardest: squeezing opinions to fit into the highly compressed space. Not surprisingly, Sachs has found critics to be "the most opinionated and creative people you'd ever want to meet. They care so much about their stories that they are ready to go to war over the change of a comma...