Mrs. Hall found particular comfort in the Vietnam veterans, with their stories of struggle, of war and of its aftermath.
In the Quran, the word is a sort of homonym with two distinct connotations the "greater jihad" which is a personal struggle of a soul in crisis, and the "lesser jihad," which is the worldly struggle of war against an oppressor.
Beautiful stories, ideas, set within the struggles of war and desperation.
Politically, Mr. Bush seemed to have won the decisive struggle of the war.
While he still predicts victory, he appears to be preparing the country for a struggle of cold war proportions.
His analogy last week between the war in Iraq and the epic struggles of World War II, the Korean War and, especially, the Vietnam War was ridiculed by some as revisionist or simply inaccurate.
We are the heirs, according to the former New Republic editor Peter Beinart, of the anti-totalitarian struggles of World War II and the cold war, and our battle against terrorism is the defining cause of the age.
There's no question that life is stressful, but, for most of us lucky enough to be reading here, our stresses are not the life-and-death struggles of urban war zones and developing world slums.
From the Civil War to our struggle against fascism, on through the long twilight struggle of the Cold War, battlefields have changed and technology has evolved.
From the Civil War, to our struggle against fascism, and through the long, twilight struggle of the Cold War, battlefields have changed, and technology has evolved.
That it exists at all is owed largely to the efforts of a group of officials, curators and artists who have struggled through years of war to rebuild what was even under dictatorship a record of an artistic awakening that produced a century's worth of painting and sculpture in modernist styles, borrowed from international movements but filtered through Iraqi and Arabic sensibilities.
