The war captain had been badly wounded and was fighting to hold his seat.

Miraculously, Karipo and her women had succeeded in driving a hundred invaders from the isle of Pamasu back to their war canoes, after considerable loss of life on both sides.

Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.

At first it had been just a romantic dream of his, the same as the idea of finishing Oxford after the war.

He had a war reputation, but this was the kind of man women like even without medals.

After the war, Penny had wanted Keith at least to visit her home with her.

Author of the Albany Plan Of Union, which, had it been adopted, might have avoided the Revolution, he fought the colonists' front-line battles in London, negotiated the treaty of alliance with France and the peace that ended the war, headed the state government of Pennsylvania, and exercised an important moderating influence at the Federal Convention.

Then suddenly we found ourselves in the middle of another fight, an irrational, an indecent, an undeclared and immoral war with our strongest ( and some had thought noblest ) ally.

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

Mama had told her how Emmett's lungs had been affected when he was gassed in the war.

Catherine's first war against the Grand Turk had ended in 1774 with a peace treaty quite favorable to her.

Here the war would flame to its focus, and here Lewis Littlepage had come.

Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.

The excesses of nationalism had brought down upon Europe a generation of tyranny and war, and a return to the old order of things seemed unthinkable.

In 1946 Sir Winston Churchill, who had spoken often of European union during the war, advocated the formation of `` a kind of United States of Europe ''.

An Italian poet had noticed plainclothes policemen lounging around the area of Quirinal Palace, the first time since the war.

Berto's The Sky Is Red had been a small masterpiece and in its special way the best book to come out of the war.

He had put it down in a war novel, The Day Of The Lion.

But for the safety of Southeast Asia, and for the sake of the Laotian people -- who would not be well-ruled by either militant minority now engaged in the fighting -- this last big effort to seal that country from the cold war had to be made.

His policies had resolved the conflicts that threatened to ignite the cold war and workable solutions were beginning to take shape.

Toward the end of the war, we really felt that we had learned something about propaganda and how to teach it.

I put a lot more trust in my two legs than in the gun, because the most important thing I had learned about war was that you could run away and survive to talk about it.

There would be great need soon for his skill as surgeon, but somehow he had not planned to use his knowledge merely for war.

The Bathyrans ran a check on Globocnik and had only to conclude that he was in a tug of war with Hans Frank and the civilian administrators.

Work on Volume 2, was begun in 1941, interrupted by the war in 1942, and resumed in 1945.

He succeeded his father as king in 272 BC, and continued the war which his father had begun with Antigonus II Gonatas, whom he succeeded in driving from the kingdom of Macedon.

Lincoln had begun putting Reconstruction policies in place during the war, but Northern anger over his assassination and the losses of the war, led to demands for more severe policies toward the Southern states.

For several years he continued the war against Miletus begun by his father, but was obliged to turn his attention towards the Medes and Babylonians.

" Gropius argued that a new period of history had begun with the end of the war.

Once war had begun, Hitler urged his economic experts to abandon caution and expend all available resources on the war effort.

Unbeknownst to Agamemnon, while he was away at war, his wife, Clytemnestra, had begun an affair with Aegisthus.

But Amadeus, doubtful of victory and now more fearful of Habsburg influence in Italy than he was of French, had begun secret dealings with Louis XIV aimed at extricating himself from the war.

It highlighted the Mutiny of 1857 as a war of liberation, and Gandhi's ' Quit India ' begun in 1942, as defining historical events.

This war had begun in September 1980, when Saddam Hussein sent Iraqi forces across the Shatt al Arab into southwestern Iran.

Booth, who had promised his mother at the outbreak of war that he would not enlist as a soldier, increasingly chafed at not fighting for the South, writing in a letter to her, " I have begun to deem myself a coward and to despise my own existence ".

This war shall be pursued against you if it takes years, now that we have begun, until you cease to exist or move.

This would have again significantly disturbed the Liberian economy, but America had already in 1942 begun investing substantially in Liberia, in projects related to America ’ s war effort.

With the start of the German war against Poland in 1939, the German minority in the parts of Masuria attached to Poland after World War I, organised in paramilitary formation called Selbstschutz begun to engage in massacres of local Polish population ; Poles were imprisoned, tortured and murdered while Masurians were sometimes forcefully placed on Volksliste

In November 1840, during a civil war that had begun as a religious conflict, the isthmus under the leadership of-now General-Tomás Herrera, who assumed the title of Superior Civil Chief, declared its independence as did multiple other local authorities.

Let those who have been accustomed unjustly to wage private warfare against the faithful now go against the infidels and end with victory this war which should have been begun long ago.

The disruption of food supplies caused by the war prolonged a period of economic hardship in Qatar that had begun in the 1920s with the collapse of the pearl trade and had increased with the global depression of the early 1930s and the Bahraini embargo.

Henry vigorously re-established royal authority in the aftermath of the civil war, dismantling castles and increasing revenues, although several of these trends had begun under Stephen.

This isolation causes entire wars to be fought, won, or lost on the frontiers before a message gets to any remote administrative capitals to let them know the war has even begun.

Like many of his students, Adorno too opposed the emergency laws, as well as the war in Vietnam, which, he said, proved the continued existence of the " world of torture that had begun in Auschwitz ” The situation only deteriorated with the police shooting of Benno Ohnesorg at a protest against the Shah's visit.

The war caused serious dislocations to both the economies and populations of central Europe, but may have done no more than seriously exacerbate changes that had begun earlier.

The Thirty Years ' War marked the last major religious war in mainland Europe, ending the large-scale religious bloodshed accompanying the Reformation, which had begun over a century before.