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Everywhere along the Appalachian frontier, settlers trekked relentlessly beyond the authority of the federal government, provoking Indian nations into unwanted conflicts that the ill-funded and underdefended republic could not afford.
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Many of us feel underrepresented, underdefended, and ignored by authority.
Instructions for Your Discontent Barrie Dolnick 2003
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Many of us feel underrepresented, underdefended, and ignored by authority.
Instructions for Your Discontent Barrie Dolnick 2003
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It made Spider nervous to leave behind the security of the bunker, but Sarge was right about the fire base being underdefended.
1968 Haldeman, Joe & Fields, Trinity 1984
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The computer will keep you on your toes with pretty smart computer play - you send out your mushroom guys after a hut and the computer dodges the fake left to take an underdefended hut of yours. eMail (will not be published) (required)
EveryJoe 2009
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The computer will keep you on your toes with pretty smart computer play - you send out your mushroom guys after a hut and the computer dodges the fake left to take an underdefended hut of yours. eMail (will not be published) (required)
EveryJoe 2009
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The computer will keep you on your toes with pretty smart computer play - you send out your mushroom guys after a hut and the computer dodges the fake left to take an underdefended hut of yours. eMail (will not be published) (required)
EveryJoe 2009
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The computer will keep you on your toes with pretty smart computer play - you send out your mushroom guys after a hut and the computer dodges the fake left to take an underdefended hut of yours. eMail (will not be published) (required)
EveryJoe 2009
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Launched with the expressed goal of capturing the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, it led to al-Sadr's Mahdi Army capturing a number of underdefended cities in southern Iraq while solidifying their hold on the Baghdad ghetto called Sadr City, and although much of the ground was recaptured and thousands of Sadrist fighters were killed, al-Sadr himself, rather than being "brought to justice," found his prestige among the Shiite rank and file enhanced and is now being courted politically by the interim government.
Archive 2004-07-01 2004
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Launched with the expressed goal of capturing the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, it led to al-Sadr's Mahdi Army capturing a number of underdefended cities in southern Iraq while solidifying their hold on the Baghdad ghetto called Sadr City, and although much of the ground was recaptured and thousands of Sadrist fighters were killed, al-Sadr himself, rather than being "brought to justice," found his prestige among the Shiite rank and file enhanced and is now being courted politically by the interim government.
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