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Which is to say, before the Cold War and World War II, when this is how Americans registered nearly all foreign wars ... isolated two-month news stories, a sudden ghastly horror show in some obscure exotic place where America has no obvious national interest, wars that fit into no grand struggle (e.g. capitalism vs. communism) that interests or inflames us.
There was, for instance, the ghastly incident shortly after Drew was born, when he was lying in the arms of their mother, who was asleep, and red ants crawled in through the window and nearly ate him alive.
Lefty, an "animal lover," reclines on a ghastly blue-green lounge chair in a red sweat suit, watching videotapes of gazelles being pounced on and devoured by lions.
Not one employed journalist in 100 has even heard of this ghastly double dip or experienced the surge of fury I felt when I called up the Authors' League in 1987 to ask why they weren't screaming about it.
From them they learned to make swift, light birchbark canoes, snowshoes, and pemmican — a ghastly but nourishing mixture of buffalo fat with bits of dried meat and berries.