Word: belongings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...terms of sheer size, South Viet Nam's military establishment is impressive. Counting Army, Air Force, Navy, and various paramilitary forces, it totals 1,022,000 under arms. Another 1,500,000 belong to local self-defense forces, armed with a number of outdated but still reasonably effective weapons. Regular soldiers have seen their equipment steadily improve in quality. The U.S. was slow to supply the best weapons to South Viet Nam's forces. But now all 185 maneuver battalions of the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) are equipped with U.S.-supplied M-16 assault...
...programs of their own, including new movies, the resulting diversity could be another serious threat to theater owners, who are already so beleaguered that they cannot afford to laugh off any competition. Says Martin Newman, a Long Island movie-chain proprietor and chairman of the NATO national campaign: "Pictures belong in the theaters. We don't even like the airlines showing films...
...authority and tradition and participate more actively in government affairs. "People leave too much to the parties," he says. "What we need in this country is a more active citizenship." Grass's solution is something called voter initiative, or grass-roots activity by people who do not necessarily belong to parties. Brandt last week hailed voter initiative as "part of the modern Germany we want to create...
...beaches, all sand, earth and ground, really belong to the public...
...bones belonged to an extinct primate that paleontologists call Ramapithecus (the Latin word for ape, with a bow to the Indian god Rama). Scientists already knew that the creature lived in Asia and Africa 8,000,000 to 15 million years ago. But they have never known exactly where to place him on the evolutionary ladder. Did he belong to the family of apes? Or was he already a member of the family of man? The questions puzzled Yale Paleontologist Elwyn L. Simons, and his former student, David R. Pilbeam, both of whom had strongly suspected for some time that...