Question: CHAPTER XX

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Tuesday afternoon Miss Lord's big touring car stood at the door of Hillcrest Lodge, for Agatha had invited the Conant party to ride with her to Millbank. Irene was tucked into the back seat in a comfortable position and beside her sat Mrs. Conant, who was going to make a few purchases at the village store. Mary Louise rode on the front seat with Agatha, who loved to drive her car and understood it perfectly.

When they drove away there was no one left in the house but Sarah Judd, the servant girl, who was washing the lunch dishes. Bub was in the shed- like garage, however, washing and polishing Will Morrison's old car, on which the paint was so cracked and faded that the boy's attempt to improve its appearance was a desperate one.

Sarah, through the kitchen window, watched Bub for a time rather sharply. Then she went out on the bluff and looked down in the valley. Miss Lord's big car was just passing the Huddle on its way up the valley.

Sarah turned and reentered the house. Her meek and diffident expression of countenance had quite disappeared. Her face now wore a look of stern determination and the blue eyes deepened and grew shrewd.

She walked straight to the den and without hesitation approached the farther wall and took from its pegs Will Morrison's fine hunting rifle. In the stock was a hollow chamber for cartridges, for the rifle was of the type known as a "repeater." Sliding back the steel plate that hid this cavity, Sarah drew from it a folded paper of a yellow tint and calmly spread it on the table before her. Then she laid down the rifle, placed a chair at the table and with absorbed attention read the letter from beginning to end--the letter that Irene had found in the book. 1. Who was the only person left in the house?
2. And who was she?
3. And what was she doing?
4. Where was Miss Lord's vehicle?
5. Of what location?
6. Did Agatha enjoy driving?
7. Did she have her own vehicle?
8. Where was Bub?
9. Doing what?
10. Whose car was it?
11. Was Bub having much luck improving the appearance of the car?
12. What had Miss Lord's vehicle just gone by?
13. Which leads to where?
14. What color eyes did Sarah have?
15. What was in the stock of the gun?
16. For holding what?
17. What kind of gun was it?
18. Was it called another name?
19. What was the color of the tint of the paper?
20. Who found the letter in the book? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Sarah Judd
2. the servant girl
3. washing dishes
4. at the door
5. Hillcrest Lodge
6. Yes
7. Yes
8. in the garage
9. washing and polishing a car
10. Will Morrison
11. No
12. the Huddle
13. the valley
14. blue
15. a hollow chamber
16. cartridges
17. rifle
18. a repeater
19. yellow
20. Irene

Question: On 16 September 2001, at Camp David, President George W. Bush used the phrase war on terrorism in an unscripted and controversial comment when he said, "This crusade this war on terrorism is going to take a while, ... " Bush later apologized for this remark due to the negative connotations the term crusade has to people, e.g. of Muslim faith. The word crusade was not used again. On 20 September 2001, during a televised address to a joint session of congress, Bush stated that, "(o)ur 'war on terror' begins with al-Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated."

U.S. President Barack Obama has rarely used the term, but in his inaugural address on 20 January 2009, he stated "Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred." In March 2009 the Defense Department officially changed the name of operations from "Global War on Terror" to "Overseas Contingency Operation" (OCO). In March 2009, the Obama administration requested that Pentagon staff members avoid use of the term, instead using "Overseas Contingency Operation". Basic objectives of the Bush administration "war on terror", such as targeting al Qaeda and building international counterterrorism alliances, remain in place. In December 2012, Jeh Johnson, the General Counsel of the Department of Defense, stated that the military fight will be replaced by a law enforcement operation when speaking at Oxford University, predicting that al Qaeda will be so weakened to be ineffective, and has been "effectively destroyed", and thus the conflict will not be an armed conflict under international law. In May 2013, Obama stated that the goal is "to dismantle specific networks of violent extremists that threaten America"; which coincided with the U.S. Office of Management and Budget having changed the wording from "Overseas Contingency Operations" to "Countering Violent Extremism" in 2010. 1. What phrase did he say?
2. Was it planned?
3. What word was considered offensive?
4. Why?
5. For which religion?
6. Where was Bush when he made this remark?
7. What day?
8. Of which year?
9. When did he apologize?
10. Where did he say the war began?
11. When does it stop?
12. Did Obama use the phrase a lot?
13. When did he use the phrase war?
14. What does the OCO stand for?
15. What was the name before?
16. When was it changed?
17. Was the phrase encouraged by him?
18. What dictionary is mentioned?
19. What did Obama say he wanted to get rid of?
20. What was something changed to in 2010? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. "This crusade this war on terrorism is going to take a while"
2. No
3. Crusade
4. Negative religious connotations.
5. Muslim
6. Camp David
7. 16 September
8. 2001
9. "Later"
10. Al-Qaeda
11. When every terrorist group has been defeated.
12. No
13. 20 January 2009
14. Overseas Contingency Operation
15. Global War on Terror
16. March 2009
17. Yes
18. unknown
19. Use of the term "War on Terror."
20. The wording from "Overseas Contingency Operations" to "Countering Violent Extremism."