Word: aggressors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russia is a restraining influence, at this point, not an aggressor," Luce said...
...Dday, the sky over the tent city of Camp Wilson, a simulated carrier just off the coast of Argos, was full of HueyCobra gunships, troop-carrying Chinooks and A-6 Intruders making thrusts at the invisible "aggressor" force. The first wave of the attack consisted of reservists from New England, Ohio and New York-most of whom viewed the task mainly as an extra day in the sun. Bedraggled and blear-eyed, they ambled off belching LVTs to the consternation of whitebanded "umpires" who frantically waved yellow flags to simulate a mortar and grenade attack...
...aggressor battalion has pushed a company to within three miles of Camp Wilson," said Colonel A.J. Brosco, 43, a criminal lawyer from Providence, R.I. "Give me the file marked confidential," he said to a captain. "Aerial photos taken this morning indicate a SAM location and a rudimentary airfield." "Excuse me, sir," warned a crew-cut major, "we just got a report that something is moving on the left flank. It could be pretty sticky...
...when man is removed entirely as the model of behavior and a woman is free to become herself." Horta believes that men, too, are oppressed. "But the relative pain of the two sexes is not comparable. Besides the social system, which rides all humanity, women have a specific aggressor: men. Not just any men, but the intimate partners, fathers, brothers, sons in their lives...
...deliberate echoes here of Brando's classic challenge in The Wild One. "What are you rebelling against?" one harried adult asked him, and Brando just shrugged and said, "Whatya got?" What is different in Kid Blue is the tone. Brando's cyclist was a threat, an aggressor; Hopper's outlaw is a puzzled, slightly paranoid victim. Trying to go straight and live right, he only makes the citizens more suspicious. They are resentful in some vague way, and the sheriff, Mean John ("But only my friends can call me that") Simpson, is disbelieving. "I seen boys like...