Word: wartorn
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However, Israel's human rights record--while easily the most impressive in the wartorn region--is not perfect. Since the beginning of the intifada, it has been far from perfect...
...wide-ranging speech at Brandeis University, the six-term Congressman blasted the nation's current Middle Eastern policy, which has sent U.S. warships into the wartorn region to protect international shipping lanes. "If I am [elected] president, I am not going to send our troops to the Persian Gulf when we are buying oil from the country that threatens...
...country soon recognized that reducing the 22 percent poverty rate would require more than the billion dollars we originally devoted to the problem during the Great Society's first year. As Europe and Japan finally rebuilt their own wartorn economies, and as Vietnam drained some of the United States' own resources, the economic pie didn't expand nearly as rapidly as before. Allowing Blacks to eat at the same lunch counter in Kresge's just wasn't enough. The summer riots told us that social equality was too difficult to achieve, so we refused to bus our children. Ecology...
...strike the town center and had been misdirected by insurgents using captured radios. The commander who led the counterattack apologized to the people of Tenancingo, explaining that the brutal bombing raid had been an "exception." Nevertheless, the incident was bound to set back government efforts to pacify and repopulate wartorn areas of the country. It was also sure to draw the wrath of U.S. congressional critics...
...cynical young Israeli hero who buys land in the West Bank as a real estate investment, kicks an Arab shoeshine boy to show that he lives up to the standards of anti-Arab Jewish settlers in the West Bank, and later tries to figure out how to leave wartorn, inflation-ridden Israel by obtaining an immigrant visa to the U.S. In the end, alas, he dies while on military service in faraway "Israeli-occupied Albania...