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Star Wars
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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Star Wars
• an informal name for the Strategic Defense Initiative.
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General Petraeus boom War Gives B rie A fing
Newspaper article from: Idaho State Journal; 11/29/2009; 700+ words
; ...recommendations on how to prosecute the war in Afghanistan, I spoke with...His subsequent rise from one star to four was extraordinarily swift...ACKNOWLEDGES THAT after eight years of war against a determined and elusive...Congress, question whether the war in Afghanistan remains worth...
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ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY ROTC INSTRUCTOR TO RECEIVE BRONZE STAR
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 12/1/2009; 633 words
; ...University, will be awarded the Bronze Star medal at a special ceremony on Thursday...Special Operations Command, enabling the war fighter with real-time video dissemination...personnel across the globe." The Bronze Star is awarded for heroic or meritorious achievement...
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War has a relentless and indelible pattern.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 2/25/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...the Grand Alliance. The Russo-Turkish War. The Ottoman Wars. The Danish-Swedish War (1643-1645...Polish-Cossack War. The Polish-Swedish War. The Wars of the Fronde, or French Civil Wars...War of Austrian Succession. The Punic Wars. "It (war) is all hell ...
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War time past is legacy for future
Newspaper article from: Lincolnwood Review (IL); 11/15/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...It should have been the war to end all wars." Sparks' husband...senseless." "I hate wars," he said. "Why can...while the effects of the war could still be seen in...Award-winning movie star Dan Dailey. Potoczek...library. Veterans of World War II and other wars are encouraged ...
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War on the musical front
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 2/9/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...gave birth to the name War. Although War seems to be a moniker with violent...being "our weapons of choice." War will roll out its musical arsenal...Together, said his band has opened for War at the Star Plaza Theatre in Merrillville and...
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WAR THROUGH HOLLYWOOD'S EYE.(PREVIEW)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 10/8/1998; 652 words
; ...STRICKLER Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune War and politics go hand in hand...Ri'' (1954) showed Korean War pilots who were not entirely...Between the Korean and Vietnam wars, romance returned to war pictures. Many were action...
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War Emblem favored in Haskell Invitational.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 8/2/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...racing season did not end when War Emblem, with a record Belmont...opened. It just seemed that way. War Emblem might very well have been...month before the Kentucky Derby, War Emblem was not even a speck on...the North Jersey shore. The star of the show, after several false...
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War's toll is huge in tiny Vermont; A state known for activism finds itself leading in Iraq combat deaths per capita.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 1/8/2006; 700+ words
; ...signs, one urging prayer for war hostages (and their captors...Halvorsen says she never favored the war, but since her son's death...frantic when talk turns to the war. "Something didn't feel right...outspoken Cindy Sheehan's Gold Star Families for Peace anti-war...
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War!
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 1/30/2006; ; 700+ words
; WAR OF 1812 Why: Britain, then at war with France, was seizing U.S. merchant...attacks on pioneers. Congress declared war on June 18, 1812. Number of soldiers...song: Francis Scott Key penned "The Star-Spangled Banner" after he witnessed...
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War flicks struggle to make audiences enlist.(Arts and Lifestyle)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 10/30/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Byline: James Verniere Is war a box-office turnoff...and a huge box-office star. Steeped in the tradition...2001) turns the "good" war into a soap opera and...And the recent World War II action flick "The...Jake Gyllenhaal, left, stars in `Jarhead,' and R...
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War of 1812
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...Second Anglo‐American War, was caused primarily by the...trading with France during the wars of the French Revolution (1792...in open warfare. The road to war began in 1794 when the British...Francis Scott Key to write The Star‐Spangled Banner. The war's cost resulted in the ...
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war photographers
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
war photographers and ciné cameramen of both sides, like war correspondents with whom they...just about every aspect of the war. Roger Fenton, Queen Victoria...one shot. The picture of the Stars and Stripes being raised over...
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War and the Arts: The Two Faces of Patriotism
Book article from: American Decades
WAR AND THE ARTS: THE TWO FACES OF PATRIOTISM Artists in the War Some of the young American men...lived in Europe during World War I later made their marks in...rallies at home. In 1917 an all-star cast including Laurette Taylor...Association, which organized stars' appearances at ...
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The Economy: War Taxes and Financing
Book article from: American Decades
...lower denominations. Buying war bonds became an act of patriotism...the men and women fighting the war. Bond drives and rallies became...Kentucky Derby winner Man o' War's horseshoes or bidding for a kiss from movie star Hedy Lamarr. A marathon radio...
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Star Wars
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Star Wars George Lucas ’ s film Star Wars...digital and computerized sequencing. Before Star Wars , possibly the last science fiction film...Odyssey (1968). The financial success of Star Wars changed Hollywood ’ s negative...
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