Word: foes
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Absolutely Super. In Orwell's 1984, Britain is no longer Britain. It is merely part of the superstate Oceania (the British Isles and Atlantic Islands, North and South America, southern Africa, Australasia). From 1960 on, Oceania has been ceaselessly at war, sometimes as ally and sometimes as foe, with Eurasia or Eastasia, the only other existing powers. All three of these monolithic superstates have the atom bomb; none ever uses it because continuous, wasteful, indecisive warfare has become economically essential-"to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living...
Navy Secretary John Sullivan had quit in a rage. Last week, in a pointedly bitter farewell, he said he was leaving "a Navy that no foreign foe has ever defeated." Nobody in the Pentagon missed the stress on the word "foreign...
...Clark, said: "We have evidence that has never been shown up to now. We're sure we'll win-otherwise we wouldn't have brought all this before the grand jury. This is the first criminal indictment ever returned against Bridges." Harry Bridges, a noisy foe of the Truman Administration, had his own theory about the charges: "A smokescreen to get people's attention away from what's happening in Washington...
...light. She highlights some shapes with dabs of tempera, underlines some with India ink scratches, blurs others out. As a result, her subjects seem to be glimpsed through the rich, hazy surfaces of her pictures. Their evanescent quality led one critic to remark that Bishop was battling an insidious foe, "none other than invisibility...
...moas were not alone in their death agony. A giant woodhen (Aptornis) and a goose (Cnemiornis), half again as big as a barnyard goose, were also bogged down. Nor was the slime their only foe. As they struggled, huge eagles (Harpagornis) swooped down and tried to pick some meat from the enveloping "aspic." Some of the eagles became mired too, and left their remains (bigger than the great monkey-eating eagle of the Philippines) in Pyramid Valley's death trap...