Word: billets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about a month before Walker was scheduled to leave Turkey, he received another "eyes only" message. In it, Rogers confessed that he had "struck out." There would be no new four-star billet for Walker. He could take a demotion and an assignment as a lieutenant general. Or he could retire. All three-and four-star generals hold temporary rank and are subject to losing as many as two stars if suitable assignments cannot be found for them. It is a rare reality of military life, not one likely to happen to a Sam Walker...
Every so often each year there occurs a self-bestowed Christmas in the American home. A package arrives. The eager family gathers round to rip it open. Instead of "Blessings from Gran," the enclosed billet-doux reads...
...were affected, some of them isolated by 8 in. of snow on the narrow mountain roads. In the settlement of Alikelle, only two people survived out of 70 families. In the town of Caldiran, where 2,023 people once lived, only one structure remained standing: an army officers' billet...
...agricultural advisers to farming cooperatives formed from nationalized estates, manning many of Angola's hospitals, and helping to rebuild the country's shattered road systems. These civilian advisers seem to be well liked. Posters salute them as OUR BLOOD BROTHERS, and a reciprocal sign in a Cuban billet proclaims: WE ARE LATIN AFRICANS. Generally, the visitors keep a low profile in Luanda; they are seldom seen in great numbers except on weekends, when they congregate on a beach reserved for them to play their guitars, sing songs, play soccer or volleyball. Says one Portuguese resident of the capital...
...Marie-Laure de Decker are the only two who have been honored in the past by explicit mention in the press. The unpublished catalogue of alleged paramours, however, grows daily, and threatens to become the French equivalent of the now defunct White House "enemies list" as the sought-after billet of dubious distinction...