Word: warred
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...Despite these efforts, however, terrorism experts warn that some American Muslims will continue to succumb to extremist calls for holy war against their own country. Some will be inflamed by the continued presence of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Says Hooper: "Extremists use U.S. foreign policy as a recruitment tool...
John Hope Franklin had a calling. as a supersmart youth in the depths of segregation, he was born to do war with racism. But while others expected him to become a lawyer, he resolved to be a historian. He rejoiced in this vocation and, more than anyone else, taught us that American history and African-American history are inseparably intertwined. To the end of his long life, racial prejudice filled him with fresh indignation, though he was never entrapped in indignation. He had a vast curiosity, a genius for friendship and always a wonderful gleam in his eye - a sign...
...firepower to carry out the strikes, but to what extent is unclear. Yemeni state media reported that President Obama phoned Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to congratulate him on a job well done, and ABC News said that U.S. cruise missiles had been used. (See pictures of the hidden war in Yemen...
...birthday celebration on Monday, which was organized by the Communist party, the majority of the attendees were World War II veterans bred on Stalinist propaganda. But hundreds of younger people also sat in the auditorium or milled around the vestibule as the musicians performed. One of them, Vadim Kasimov, a secretary of the Union of Communist Youth, said that Stalin's legacy is one of his group's best tools for recruiting new members. "Young people, when they think of him at all, think of him as a strong leader, a vibrant personality, and what he stood for they often...
...that the wartime Pope was a Catholic in good faith, a victim of the historical events that did not afford him the means to stop the bloodshed around him. In a way, that is just like the future German Pope himself. (See Pope Pius XII's reputation amid World War II, from TIME's Archive...