Word: combatting
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...ancient Greeks promoted the ideal of the well-rounded person, a soundly trained mind in a soundly trained body, tempering ambition with recreation, mingling contemplation and combat. But then the Greeks didn't have endorsement contracts. It is all well and good to talk about waiting until one's eligibility -- uh, education -- is completed, but when an eighth-grader can sign sponsorship deals worth potentially $1 million a year, what's the real point of further schooling? It might provide some cultural grounding and social polish, but the purpose is plainly not to qualify for a well-paying...
Yeltsin slams the Council of Ministers as "a disorganized, confused gathering of dunderheads," rips into the elderly Gromyko as "of no use to anyone" -- and even pounces on Gorbachev because he "never acts decisively." Yeltsin also suggests that dissidents be paid a salary to combat "our mindless unanimity...
...Brien once said he would never have become a writer had it not been for his combat experiences in Viet Nam. Maybe so. For better or worse, he is fated to write about what he knows: the foot soldier's intimacy with fear and death. He did it well in If I Die in a Combat Zone (1973), and even better in Going After Cacciato...
Once in country, O'Brien succeeds as well as any writer in conveying the free-fall sensation of fear and the surrealism of combat. Sometimes he succumbs to stagy symbolism, such as a scene of a literal burying of a hatchet. But when one character defines death as "like being inside a book that nobody's reading," O'Brien's notion of story-truth goes off like a successful trip-flare, and we suddenly see why he had to become a writer...
...time, Naude held a leadership position in the Dutch Reformed Church, but in 1964 he founded the Christian Institute, an ecumenical body meant to use religious organizations to combat apartheid. Naude formally left the Dutch Reformed Church...