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"Yet the tides' of war do not wait, and General Lee had come to the capital to try and shape their future course." - [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0618485384&id=nSnw3YPGN-0C&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=%22tides+of+war%22&sig=hL4OXMUcIxma5nAXSP7YuJaEQsQ] '''Stephen W Sears''', 2004, ' Gettysburg

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A particular time or period of vague extent.

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* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington

, title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days , Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position.}}

Life.