Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last October the Marines added a grueling new climax to boot camp called the Crucible. Spread over 54 straight hours near the end of their training stint, it requires recruits to simulate a variety of battlefield actions amid 40 miles of hiking. They traverse a 20-ft.-wide creek with a pair of 10-ft. boards, and they carry a "wounded" Marine for a mile over rugged terrain. They perform with scant sleep or food, through day and night, and have to ignore scrapes and sprains. "I had to keep going and not let my team down," says Private Scott...
Nicotine calms the nerves and stiffens the backbone. Cigarettes in our World War II K rations helped win the war. As the holder of a battlefield commission in World War II, I know. With a major portion of our cigarettes now sent overseas, one could worry about what would happen in the event of another war. Nicotine wins wars. We must not permit a nicotine gap! DAVID MANZELLA Barrington...
...Alberta married Confederate infantryman William Jasper Martin when she was 21 and he was 82. When he died, she married his grandson. The two widows met for the first time to lay a rose each on the coffin of an unknown soldier whose remains were found on a Gettysburg battlefield and reburied...
...faced one of the lowest points of his rocky speakership, history offered a more cautionary lesson. It was that of a Roman general who became master of the empire, only to find that his own inner circle posed a greater threat than any enemy he had met on the battlefield. Last Tuesday evening, when a handful of conspirators met in the Capitol to plot against their Speaker, Gingrich could not help noticing where they had gathered--in a secluded suite of rooms one floor above his, the offices that belong to majority leader Dick Armey...
...faltering, both in the classroom and on the ideological battlefield, as the Western capitalism and civilizations which seemed invincible in 1945 were exposed as vulnerable in the jungles of Vietnam...