Word: backstop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than 98% use it. Only rich and conservative holdouts rely exclusively on private care. But a growing number of Britons, 1,200,000 now as against 100,000 when NHS began, now have some private medical care as well. Some use this as a status symbol; others as a backstop to NHS, to get quicker care and more quiet and privacy...
...Atomic Backstop. But of all the U.S. Army troops, the men most under the Communist gun are those of the Seventh Army in Germany. NATO Supreme Allied Commander Lauris Norstad calls the Seventh "the best-equipped, best-led and best-trained Army the U.S. has ever fielded in peacetime." Says Seventh Army Commander Gar Davidson: "I'm confident we can handle whatever the So viets throw at us, and you can be damned sure there'll be a lot less Russians around if they...