Since then, the battle-scarred region has been slowly coming back to life.

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In 1945 he shepherded the battle-scarred old king and his entourage to an historic meeting with FDR on a ship in the Suez canal.

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He was not blaming the injury, he queried the decision, but still paid a glowing tribute to his welcoming hosts and to his battle-scarred opponent.

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Set in "Some place calling itself Rome, " but filmed, very tellingly, in battle-scarred Serbia and Montenegro, "Coriolanus" imagines a modern state rocked by food shortages and border disputes.

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Professional investors today find it easier to groom fresh (and cheap) young hustlers by the dozen than to work with battle-scarred veterans of either the startup or corporate scenes.

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Others got their first glimpse of the battle-scarred skull that may have once worn the English crown early Monday when the university released a photograph ahead of its announcement.

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It promises to be unpleasant business, this dismantling of many cherished assumptions about the U.S. force structure and its international reach, and Obama wants a battle-scarred and uncuddly sort to conduct it.

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When the Great War finished, politicians struggled to marry a battle-scarred generation with a penchant for gambling with the genteel, traditional values of a society that was otherwise untouched by the carnage of war.

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Her friends came from diverse walks of life, ranging from an Iraqi gardener to the Viceroy of India, from a Times correspondent to a battle-scarred tribal warrior, from a mutjahid to a servant from Aleppo.

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They were bruised, battered and battle-scarred.

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