41.   Any attack on the White House will pale compared to the war of electronic words between mainland China and Taiwan.

42.   As a former Portuguese colony, it was never part of the Dutch empire and played no part in the Indonesian war of independence.

43.   As a war of words erupted, the United States also began reinforcing its military presence in South Korea.

44.   As it dug in for the long war of hit-and-run with the British, the IRA vowed never to be caught unarmed again.

45.   As both sides escalate the extravagant war of the airwaves, the common people who once volunteered their services for campaigns tune out.

46.   As the on-court rivalry between the two has heated up, the war of words, partly a media invention anyway, has simmered.

47.   As Dole and his strategists prepared themselves for an indecisive result in New Hampshire, they signaled they were resigning themselves to a war of attrition.

48.   As they head into the steamy jungle, their war of attrition escalates into the cruelest possible acts of revenge and counterrevenge.

49.   As Syria sees it, those guerrillas are fighting a legitimate war of national resistance against Israeli occupiers.

50.   As the shooting grows more intense, so too does the war of rhetoric and propaganda between the two sides.