D-day & H-hour: Both military terms, used for the day and hour on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated.
insidious: an insidious danger or problem spreads gradually without being noticed and causing serious harm.
eg: an insidious trend towards censorship of the press.
root out :to find out where a particular kind of problem exists and get rid of it.
eg:Racism cannot be rooted out without strong government action.
icasualties.org: an independent website created in May 2003 by Michael White, a software engineer, to track casualties in the Afghanistan War and Iraq War.
