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To the common man, wars were just another hardship, taking sons away from the farm to fight, while the armies — French as much as foreign — ravaged the land or pillaged the towns.
The WP mostly does the flip side, describing the return of Albanians to their ravaged homes.
Why then, does the press paint Dole as a New Age '90s guy who is finally making the big hug with the inner child who was ravaged by the Wound?
Couldn't Soutine's eruptive, vertiginous landscapes be construed as recollections of a ravaged Europe, or even as the foreshadowing of an apocalyptic, post-atomic future?
Kobe exploded onto the world’s headlines with the suddenness of the earthquake that ravaged the city 17 January 1995, claiming a final death toll of over 6,000.