Today, most of the contemporaries of those fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan have simply tuned out.
Dowd cites the remarkable success of the trilogy among Generation X women -- the contemporaries, allies and beneficiaries of the modern feminist movement.
Nor, for that matter, do the majority of the Major League contemporaries I've interviewed through the years.
The two had been contemporaries at Oxford the year before the war.
But Stoke's gritty, stubborn brand of direct football has not proved popular with the media and particularly with their contemporaries in the top flight.
African advertising agencies are upping the ante and fast catching up with their contemporaries in the U.S and Europe in churning out creative, captivating stuff.
But some of the notes added to the papers over the years suggest some of the scientist's contemporaries may not have approved of the online publication.
The Leicester parking lot body was in the right place, dated to the right time, died the right way and probably looked the way many contemporaries said Richard looked.
His works, which frequently depict various forms of wildlife, earned him the praise of his contemporaries and landed him a job as Chief Taxidermist at the National Museum in Washington, D.
One of the player's contemporaries, John Fleck, has agreed on a new deal to remain at Rangers and the club are hopeful that Wilson will sign a contract extension to keep him at Ibrox beyond the end of next season.
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By day the participants study for or work at jobs that will provide them with the kinds of consumer delights enjoyed by their contemporaries throughout Asia and the rest of the world.
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At Askernish, Ebert and Irvine were determined to create golf holes the way Morris and his contemporaries did, by doing virtually nothing beyond cutting the grass and filling in old rabbit burrows.
He was the most transparently ambitious writer of his era, seeing himself in competition not just with his contemporaries but with the likes of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky.
While Mr Inwood spends several pages describing the Great Fire of 1666, with the help of accounts by contemporaries such as Pepys and Clarendon, Mr Sheppard devotes a single paragraph to describing one of the seminal events in London's history before moving on to the rather less gripping subject of the planning regulations that governed the rebuilding of the city.
Rusedski's contemporaries on the ATP Tour were also surprised by the news that the Briton had tested positive.
In Milwaukee, pupils in voucher schools scored 11 percentage points more in mathematics than their hapless contemporaries in the city's public schools.
They saw their contemporaries in the rest of the world -- Latin America, Asia, Eastern Europe -- gaining new skills and opportunities, while they remained out of work.
Certainly Richard's July 6, 1483, coronation was very well attended, which might not have been the case had his contemporaries believed that he had murdered his brother's children.
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Compared to many of their contemporaries, the Gits were instrumentally brilliant, playing fast, tight, classic punk rock which took a radical left turn when Zapata added her voice to the mix.
In 2006, after years of litigation, five paintings by Klimt once owned by Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer, two Austrian-Jewish collectors who were the painter's contemporaries, were returned to their heirs by Vienna's Belvedere museum.
To help out, Dominic Dromgoole, the new director of Shakespeare's Globe, in London, which has hitherto been devoted exclusively to the Bard and his contemporaries, is planning to stage two brand new plays this year out of its total of six.
Like his contemporaries in the hustling game, he made something of a specialty of maneuvering around bankers in the world of finance, and found a certain vicious joy in doing it well (frontier hustlers swindling East Coast bankers before the rise of the telegraph was a common occurrence).
Most of the latter-day Superman writers, and several of my own contemporaries, come down on the side of the notion that Clark is the real person and Superman is just what he can do.
He shared the tastes of his English contemporaries: Madeira, his coat of arms and fox-hunting.
Without talented artists such as Gorka and his contemporaries to mind the path, this kind of personal, meaningful and human music might have slipped away.
What however makes Mr Winters appealing for the Barclays board is that he is a former investment banker who eschewed much of the reckless behaviour of his contemporaries.
Consider that when freestyle skier Sarah Burke died while training for the 2012 Winter X Games, her contemporaries honored her memory by throwing down stunts in a halfpipe just like the one that caused her death.
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Here Russian painters can be caught at the moment when they ceased to imitate their French and Italian contemporaries, as they had done under Catherine the Great, and started to discover their own distinct country of mysterious landscapes, fading light, desperate peasants and brooding great men.
When his contemporaries stepped back in the 1960s, he continued, still looking youthful and dashing, wooing girls with a stylish swagger.
The 73-year-old won Green Jackets in 1961, 1974 and 1978 and will join contemporaries Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus on the sidelines.
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