Word: horror
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...level, the debate concerns intellectual honesty. At least one human- rights organization believes the Kuwaiti government in exile may be orchestrating exaggerated tales of horror for political gain. "The situation is bad enough when you consider just the tragedies that can be objectively verified," says Andrew Whitley, the executive director of Middle East Watch, headquartered in New York. "There is no need to inflate the statistics...
Love is home. But home may be a horror also, a cage with wild animals in it. Home is aligned on the side of life, and so the perversion of it (by incest, for example; by violence; by betrayal) is a filthy business, and sometimes evil...
...ones in danger. I know them well. I'd been there three years teaching dentistry. The Kuwaitis are imperious. They exploit people. They're spoiled with wealth. One is certainly entitled to ask why soldiers should fight and die for them. But no people deserve this kind of horror. Last week we heard that Kuwaiti doctors, some of them friends of mine, were systematically being shipped to Iraq. I don't think they'll ever be seen again...
...lights went out just after 7 p.m. Then a granade exploded and gunfire was heard. With that, a street corner in Petionville, seven miles outside the capital of Port-au-Prince, was turned into a horror scene of shattered bodies and mangled limbs. Seven people were killed and 54 wounded...
...duplicity and horror of the Vietnam War should be recognized and assiduously avoided. But contemporary anti-war protestors invoke the memories of Vietnam as a cheap rhetorical device. Regardless of the legitimacy of U.S. involvement in the Persian Gulf, that intervention should not be equated with the war in Vietnam...