Word: ground
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Your report "Homicide In The Sky," on the unruly airline passenger who died from injuries inflicted by fellow flyers, almost got me off the ground [NATION, Oct. 2]. You seemed sympathetic to Jonathan Burton, a passenger who was acting like a crazed lunatic and who, if left unchecked, could have brought down a planeload of people. You looked critically at the brave passengers who apparently contributed to Burton's death while trying to subdue him. Was his death the result of vigilante justice? No. It was the result of people doing what they had to to save themselves and others...
...need for more powerful tank guns; longer-range, all-weather optics; thicker armor; and better coordination among units. Defensive tactics were refined, complementing Israel's already formidable offensive capabilities. For Israel, it had been the fourth war in 25 years. The Israelis were unchallengeable on the ground and in the air--at least in conventional terms...
...Israel's adversaries found a new way to fight. They used infantry (equipped with small arms, rocket-propelled grenades and antitank guided missiles). In response, Israel put mortars on its tanks and practiced seizing the high ground in order to bring fire against enemy infantrymen...
Israel suddenly saw itself portrayed as Goliath rather than David. Responding with fighter planes, tanks and artillery was impossible; responding with troops on the ground risked casualties; and no society is more reluctant than Israel's to accept losses...
...wobble if set on a table. Instead of pattern or fine painting, their surfaces are all drips and cracks that, contemplated in the dim natural light of the teahouse, may suggest large natural events. One of the most beautiful bowls in this show, black glaze on a gritty brown ground, has an almost thunderous gravity that suits the name bestowed on it by earlier owners, Amagumo, or "Rain Clouds...