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In his book, Team of Teams, General Stanley McChrystal describes how the army's hierarchical structure hindered its operations during the early stages of the Iraq war.

But carrots got their biggest boost during the two world wars when food shortages forced people to eat them and governments told everyone how healthy carrots were.

Is it possible to enjoy a peaceful life in a world that is increasingly challenged by threats and uncertainties from wars, terrorism, economic crises and a widespread outbreak of infectious diseases? The answer is yes, according to a new book The 10 Golden Rules: Ancient Wisdom from the Greek Philosophers on Living a Good Life.

in the year to March, the worst slide since the Second World War.

was the worst he had ever seen since World War II

The problems with the nation's cuisine can be traced back to the Second World War.

The Second World War led to an inadequate supply of food  in Britain

They played the same role in War of the Worlds.

In 2014, UNESCO gave Italy two years to manage Venice's flourishing tourism or the city would be placed on another list—World Heritage In Danger, joining such sites as Aleppo and Palmyra,destroyed by the war in Syria.

In his book, Team of Teams, General Stanley McChrystal describe show the army's hierarchical structure hindered its operations during the early stages of the Iraq war.

In those years, just after World War I, the military wanted to build an American highway system for national defense.

The Olympic suffered two crashes with other ships and went on to serve as a hospital ship and troop transport in World War I.

My grandfather served in World War II, and I hope to be just like him someday.

The move was prompted by OPEC's desire to raise prices by restricting supply and by its opposition to US support of Israel in the Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War.

Despite bottoming out in 1933, the Depression didn't end until World War II

After World War Ⅱ, the academic world turned with new enthusiasm to humanistic studies, which seemed to many scholars the best way to ensure the survival of democracy.

Two world wars and a Great Depression rocked the confidence of many people that scientific expertise alone could create a prosperous and ordered world.

She was born about the time of the War of Independence.

Her family received international aid during the war when she was growing up.

In war time, codes are especially important.

It reflected the fact that these decades saw a climb in general standards of living and avoidance of mass societal traumas like foil-scale war or economic deprivation.

It was used during World War Two by the Americans.

President Abraham Lincoln, during the Civil War, issued a proclamation setting aside the last Thursday in November for the holiday.

Steel's fragility at low temperatures first became a major concern during the Second World War.

The Ebro Delta, in Spain, famous as a battleground during the Spanish civil War, is now the setting for a different contest, one that is pitting rice farmers against two enemies: the rice-eating giant apple snail, and rising sea levels.

The Nature Conservancy has declared war on a multitude of invasive species here, from sheep to plants to the aggressive Argentine ant.

A war injury has made his left hand stop functioning, and he has often been in prison.

After staying overnight in London, we travel on day 2 to northern France to visit the World War I battlefields.

As you go through this book, you will find that each of the millions of people who lived through world war ii had a different experience.

But the war was not over yet.

Chimps will cooperate in certain ways, like gathering in war parties to protect their territory.

During the war, my husband was stationed at an army camp in a desert in California.

Her friends came to help her when the war broke out.

In fact, when it comes to the art of war, ants have no equal.

Just as in a game of tug-of-war, whenever a person is added, everyone else pulls the rope with less force.

Now Alia waited for the war to end and dreamed of peace and a new library.

The books stayed hidden as the war continued.

The night she won olympic gold in Beijing, the routine murders in Waterhouse and the drug wars in the neighbouring streets stopped.

When the war was near, Alia was worried that the fires of war would destroy the books, which are more precious to her than mountain of gold.

Zac knows the meaning of a purple heart—he earned one himself in a war as a soldier.

We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper review published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War Ⅱ, at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament to the publications in which it appeared.

This is because the networked computer has sparked a secret war between downloading and uploading - between passive consumption and active creation - whose outcome will shape our collective future in ways we can only begin to imagine.

The company seems to have concluded that its reputation in Vermont is already so damaged that it has noting left to lose by going to war with the state.

I call it a secret war for two reasons.

The commission was also to consider possible arrangements for the War and Navy Departments.

The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century-the period when the United States emerged as an international power.

Mullett, it was built from 1871 to 1888 to house the growing staffs of the State, War, and Navy Departments, and is considered one of the best examples of French Second Empire architecture in the country.

It has housed 16 Secretaries of the Navy, 21 Secretaries of War, and 24 Secretaries of State.

Both men emphasized the dirt and exhaustion of war, the fragments of civilization that the soldiers shared with each other and the civilians: coffee, tobacco, whiskey, shelter, sleep.

During the Depression and the war, Americans had learned to live with less, and that restraint, in combination with the postwar confidence in the future, made small, efficient housing positively stylish.

It has housed 16 Secretaries of the Navy, 21 Secretaries of War, and 24 Secretaries of state.

Looking beyond the culture war logic of right or wrong means opening up the middle ground and understanding that managing immigration today requires multiple paths and multiple outcomes.

Pyle was famous for covering the human side of the war, writing about the dirt-snow-and-mud soldiers, not how many miles were gained or what towns were captured or liberated.

The phrase "less is more" was actually first popularized by a German, the architect Ludwig mies van der Rohe, who like other people associated with the Bauhaus, a school of design, emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at Am

The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first

There are reports that some military aircraft flew in formation when they were low on fuel during the Second World War, but Dr. lissaman says they are unsubstantiated.

We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper reviews published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War II, at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament to the pu