Word: seems
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...Church suppers are putting together toilet kits to send to the soldiers in the gulf. Mothers with children serving in the Middle East are still sympathetic celebrities in the neighborhoods. And yet, as a conservative civil engineer in Atlanta remarked wearily last week, "every time I turn around, we seem to be going to some damned war or another. It just doesn't seem to stop...
...hairline fractures have begun to appear in American opinion. Some of the divisions are generational. Those with memories of earlier wars seem warier than the young about new military adventures. Vietnam veterans are especially cautious about a new war. Says Richard Zierdt of Circle Pines, Minn., who served as an Air Force sergeant in Vietnam: "Veterans are the least willing to create new veterans. War is never really inevitable until you fire the first shot. But I think our current policies are taking us that...
Russians have said there are really only two words in their language: ura (hurrah) and uvy (alas). After generations of being forced to cheer, 286 million people now seem to be lamenting in unison. What's more, they are | booing the man who empowered them to do so. Gorbachev may deserve criticism for having not yet abolished the State Planning Commission, and numerous central ministries are still obstructing reform. But he has unquestionably dismantled the Ministry of Fear. For that he gets astonishingly little thanks...
...addition to the school's more august holdings (it has a Gutenberg Bible and a garden donated by the King of Siam), help give Eton more the air of a university than a high school. That impression is intensified by the precocious self-possession of its students, who seem to have nothing teenage about them, maturing overnight from short pants into three-piece suits. Recent issues of the Eton College Chronicle, the boys' magazine, feature long articles on perestroika, detailed surveys of Malawi, rhymed quatrains about Salman Rushdie. Boys put on plays by Ken Kesey and Lope de Vega, flock...
...unless the Iraqi troops collapsed quickly and began surrendering en ( masse, allied infantry and armor would have to go on the attack. On paper the ratios seem extremely unfavorable. Conventional military wisdom is that attackers should have a 3-to-1 superiority in numbers to blast defenders out of well-entrenched positions; in Kuwait and Iraq the numbers would be only equal. American tanks would actually be outnumbered 3-to-1 by Iraqi armor, though the numbers of heavy tanks would be approximately even, and the American M1 Abrams is thought to be superior in speed, maneuverability and firepower...