Word: bereted
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...Americans are wondering why we have spent more than $250 billion in each of the past four years on National Defense alone. We do not need something flashy; we need practicality. The current hat, with its baseball-style brim, shields the troops' faces from rain and sun exposure. The beret merely throws a person's head off center...
...army is right to cite unity and strength as objectives, but wrong to assume that berets will help at all in achieving them. In fact, Green Beret Special Forces, Army Rangers (black berets) and airborne units (maroon berets) are already voicing heated objections to the new uniform accessory, claiming that their distinction has been removed. This division among the soldiers can only weaken our defenses...
...would-be Tigers will, in fact, have to start early. Tiger's dad Earl, a Green Beret lieutenant colonel in Vietnam, took up golf in his 40s, a few years before Tiger was born. And though he became a one-handicap, his struggles convinced him that kids should be taught the game as soon as they're capable of swinging a sawed-off club. For his son, that was at 10 months. Tiger took a strong interest in the game, which, by all accounts, his parents managed to encourage without pushing and while keeping things...
...Quakers rallied with four goals in the final quarter, but their efforts fell short against Brown junior goaltender Beret Dickson...
...Isabel Allende has penned a number of novels describing, in striking detail, the horrors of former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet's regime. From hidden mass graves to public executions of dissidents, these atrocities can fill volumes. Yet Allende only refers to Pinochet as the man in sunglasses and a beret. Her reluctance to explicitly name Pinochet underscores the terrifying influence the former dictator still holds over many Chileans...