Word: webbed
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...only that were true. In reality, the nine final clubs and the College are bound together in a complex web of connections--every one of which benefits the clubs directly, and discredits the College profoundly...
Orwell devoted the rest of his life to arresting this process, against formidable odds. He took on not only Nazis and Stalinists and all advocates of the expedient lie but the solipsism of much modern philosophy and literature. Theories that reality is simply the spider web of word spinners left him aghast; that way lay the dictatorship of the speaker and, ultimately, the abstract, ominous slogans of Nineteen Eighty-Four: WAR IS PEACE; FREEDOM IS SLAVERY; IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH...
...attack on the Marines in Lebanon. Robert ("Bud") McFarlane, a retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, knew the scene of the carnage ultimately. For three months he had shuttled around the Middle East as the President's special envoy, trying to make sense of the region's complex web of rivalries and hatreds. No problem had preoccupied him as much as Lebanon; he had played a key role in arranging the latest ceasefire...
Whether Tanaka will be forced to loosen his political hold on the country is another matter. Elected Prime Minister in 1972, he resigned two years later when a Japanese magazine reported that he had set up a web of fake firms to hide shady financial dealings. Two years later, an official probe led to the Lockheed bribery charges and Tanaka's subsequent arrest. Throughout his travails, however, Tanaka always retained his seat in the Diet, which he first won in 1947. More important, he still controls the largest faction within Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party...
Your statement that the destruction of my wrecked "web" brought down several Boston trust companies is perfidious. Under any other form of government, it would call for a challenge to a duel. For this time, I shall refrain from perforating your hide on condition that you make public amend by printing this letter verbatim...