Word: berets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DiCara amassed a number of activities there that made him undisputed Boston champion in the brag list competition. He built up a dependable constituency and attracted other support by appearing at all the football games as head water boy dressed in purple sneakers, socks, pants, sweater, and beret...
...John F. Kennedy told them: "Wear the beret proudly. It will be a mark of distinction and a badge of courage in the fight for freedom." The Green Berets were, in this war at least, a final flowering of glory-Pimpernels, the last Lone Rangers, ready for anything, ascetic, hard as knives, Apaches with diplomas from Fort Bragg. For a time they were American heroes. In 1965, Robin Moore's novel The Green Berets became a bestseller, and a year later, Barry Sadler's Ballad of the Green Berets went to the top of the song charts. John...
YOUR hair is too familiar and too tempting a target," General Haim Bar-Lev gently suggested. So David Ben-Gurion, 84, obediently accepted a beret and pressed it down over his distinctive white mane. That done, Israel's first Premier and Defense Minister last week followed Chief of Staff Bar-Lev on a tour of Suez Canal fortifications...
...right to civilian counsel then goes on to prohibit any Government payment of expenses; therefore, it would be wrong for the Army to provide mail, phone and transportation services free of charge. When Aronson noted that civilian lawyers for defendants in the My Lai massacre and the 1969 Green Beret double-agent murder cases were given extensive military cooperation in Viet Nam, the Army counsel brushed the comparison aside, stating that "special political considerations" were involved in those cases...
...teaching in an all-black New Orleans high school, to work with CORE. On a 1963 trip to Europe, Daniel became fascinated by the catacomb Christians he met in Iron Curtain countries. He returned lean and ascetic in a breezy new uniform?a black turtleneck sweater, ski jacket and beret...