His book reveals the strange mixture of meanings the war had for its combatants.

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In a strange way, America's war against fires is similar to its war against drugs.

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Then, after holding off the orchestra music that attempted to guide him offstage, he said, "It fills me with great joy, but also great sadness, because I'm accepting this award at such a strange time, " he continued, referring to the war in Iraq.

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After the war, Mr Castelli's career took a strange turn when his well-meaning father-in-law set him up as a sweater manufacturer.

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However, if he had been, then it would seem strange that he was not indicted by the UN's war-crimes tribunal which he says looked into his culpability and proceeded no further.

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If Romney can dodge and feint his way past all his strange opponents, and discreetly shed some of the culture-war rhetoric he is finding himself obliged to mouth (which may be a challenge), he might arrive in November looking like a plausible candidate of the center, which is the way all Presidential candidates aspire to look.

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He had the grit to use the atomic bomb, the imagination to grasp the nature of the emerging cold war, and the simple eloquence needed to explain the strange new world to the Americans.

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Idaho sheep ranchers couldn't figure out why, in the decade after World War II, a random batch of their lambs were being born with strange birth defects.

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Imagine if U.S. involvement in World War II that began at Pearl Harbor was still taking place in 1973, a long strange trip from the Andrews Sisters to Led Zeppelin.

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"We all live in Mr Punch's shadow and what a strange shadow it is, " laughs Mervyn Millar, UK director of Handspring - the puppet company behind War Horse, which is soon to unveil a new show Crow based on the poems of Ted Hughes.

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But in a strange sort of way a lot of it was like looking though a keyhole at a very small piece of the war.

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