Word: grunting
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...just finished a remarkable book called The Good Soldiers, by David Finkel. It is the best grunt's-eye view of the war in Iraq that I've read; certainly, it's the best written. But it also raises, implicitly, the mystery of our qualified success there. Finkel follows an Army battalion through the 2007 surge, as it attempts to secure a particularly nasty and neglected area of Baghdad. This was the first attempt to implement the Army's new counterinsurgency doctrine, and the troops have their doubts about the new tactics. Major Brent Cummings, the second-in-command, reads...
...Villepin could not be more different. Tall, elegant, and ostentatiously erudite, Villepin was a career diplomat who gained the Matignon without ever having run for office. Short, petulant and sparking with excessive energy, Sarkozy marched to the Elysée Palace by winning an election, using old-fashioned political grunt work and his Cabinet posts to establish a reputation for delivering results. Along the way, the two men's conflicting styles and rival aspirations turned them into bitter enemies. Now, two years after Sarkozy won a sometimes vicious scrap to become the conservative presidential candidate, they are facing off again...
...reception that brought the Crimson within seven points late in the final quarter.The pivotal moment in the contest came after the Harvard offense responded to a Crusader run of 20 unanswered points with a touchdown of its own. Relying on junior tailback Gino Gordon for the majority of the grunt work, the Crimson marched 67 yards down field and planted the ball in the Crusader’s endzone—bringing the score to 20-13 as Holy Cross fans with shirts declaring “God is on our side” looked on in rapt dismay. After...
...because of the late arrival of the rainy season. Even though wildlife was relatively scarce, we still saw a wealth of fauna including greater kudu, the agile klipspringer antelope, fish eagles, the voracious ant lion and shy pancake tortoises. Added drama came from following elephant tracks, hearing a leopard grunt across a riverbank, speculating as to the whereabouts of a lone crocodile near our camp and scrambling up the rocky 5,000-ft. (1,500 m) massifs of Ngai Sui Sui and Tale, or down the Lengatoi river gorge - memorable for its heavily eroded granite and limestone rocks...
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