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101stratagem — Synonyms and related words: action, ad hoc measure, alibi, answer, apology, art, artful dodge, artifice, bag of tricks, blind, bluff, bosey, cabal, catch, chicanery, chouse, cloak, collusion, color, complicity, complot, confederacy, connivance,… …
102subterfuge — Synonyms and related words: airtight secrecy, alibi, apology, art, artful dodge, artifice, bag of tricks, bamboozlement, befooling, bickering, blind, bluff, bluffing, boggling, bosey, burial, burying, calculated deception, captiousness, catch,… …
103varnish — Synonyms and related words: acting, adorn, affectation, air brush, alibi, allow for, allowance, apology, appearance, apply paint, art paper, attitudinizing, becloud, bedaub, bedizen, befog, begild, belie, besmear, bias, blanket, blind, bluff,… …
104Battle of Monte Cassino — Part of World War II, Italian Campaign Ruins of Cassino town after the battle …
105Oil-for-Food Programme — The Oil for Food Programme (OFF), established by the United Nations in 1995 (under UN Security Council Resolution 986)[1] was established with the stated intent to allow Iraq to sell oil on the world market in exchange for food, medicine, and… …
106Battle of Villers-Bocage — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Villers Bocage partof=Operation Overlord, Battle of Normandy caption=This map shows the direction of the 7th Armoured Divisions advance and the directions of the German attacks (One should note that… …
107Battle of Westport — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Westport caption=Battle across Brush Creek as depicted in Missouri State Capitol mural partof=American Civil War date=October 23, 1864 place=Present day Kansas City, Missouri result=Union victory… …
108Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda link allegations — were made by some U.S. Government officials who claimed that a highly secretive relationship existed between former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the radical Islamist militant organization Al Qaeda from 1992 to 2003, specifically through a… …
109USS O'Brien (DD-725) — For other ships of the same name, see USS O Brien. USS O Brien (DD 725), off Boston, Massachusetts, 3 May 1944 Career (US) …
110Operation Tungsten — was a British naval operation during World War II. it was one of a number of aerial attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz while she was in Norwegian waters. The attack was carried out aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm (the air units of the Royal… …
