Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...critics have said Ararat leaves them cold That's fair enough, there is no Whitmanesque rush of consciousness flowing through these pages. If The White Hotel was a wave of feeling. Ararat is that wave caught on a canvas and framed. Other critics have com- pared it to a web of interconnected symbols and mentioned for scientific study setting forth connections and order...
...casual Western observer; the sight of the British fleet steaming away from Portsmouth Harbor to the defense of this last vestige of the Empire made choosing the hero similarly uncomplicated. Behind this simplistic facade, however, lay a hundred years of British foot-dragging and neglect, and a tangled web of alliances and implications that involved North America as well as Europe and which will continue to reverberate through the hemisphere for quite some time to come...
...mystery only more intriguing. Was the Soviet Union, acting through Bulgaria, behind the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II by Turkish Terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca on that sunny May afternoon in 1981? The latest fragment does not answer that question once and for all, but it tightens the web of circumstantial evidence around the Kremlin. A Bulgarian embassy worker who defected to France in 1981 has told French intelligence officials that the KGB devised the plot to kill the Pope out of fear that the Polish-born prelate was part of a U.S.-inspired scheme to undermine the Polish...
...Funnel-web, n.: a type of venomous spider...
...should be prepared to fight. "If you don't know what you want to do, you can't plan how to do it," says John Collins, senior defense specialist "for the Library of Congress. The defense guidance report produced by the Pentagon often seems to be a web of rationales for buying all possible wonder weapons. "It does little to set meaningful priorities," says General David Jones, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As Edward Luttwak, a conservative analyst, writes: "In lieu of strategy at all levels, we have only budgeting, programming and politics...