Word: war-torn
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...brief span of years in the 9th century, through a combination of armed might and wisdom, the Prankish King Charlemagne succeeded in establishing a measure of unity in war-torn Europe. Last week, 1,142 years after Charlemagne's burial in Aix la-Chapelle (the German city of Aachen), Sir Winston Churchill journeyed to Aachen to accept its Charlemagne Prize* for his own efforts to promote European understanding...
...war-torn 1943, Winston Churchill sent a top-secret, high-priority order winging to one of his subordinates. It concerned a dwindling garrison at Gibraltar. Legend has long held that when the last of the famed Barbary apes leave Gibraltar, the British will soon follow. With the pack reduced to seven, Churchill was taking no chances. A troop transport was dispatched to North Africa to get more apes...
Promoted to serve as ambassador to Russia, then to Great Britain, Shigemitsu ineffectively opposed the runaway Japanese expansion into the Pacific that led to the crash of Pearl Harbor. He opposed the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy. In war-torn (1941) London Winston Churchill wrote of Shigemitsu: "His whole attitude throughout was most friendly . . . We have no doubt where he stands...
...Southeast Asia manager three years later. Wherever he went Symonds showed a rare sympathy for the impoverished, war-torn Asians he met and wrote about. "He was always sympathetic and respectful to them," says one correspondent who worked with him, "and that's more than a lot of us were...
...really effective, it would need powers of enforcement, but Congressional sentiment currently opposes such controls. As it stands, the organization could at least help gain the removal of "discriminatory restrictions" against 'United States' exports. By promoting the conversion of currency, OTC could encourage investments in underdeveloped and war-torn countries...