Word: bivouac
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...McClellan, where they live in the same barracks as men, some women complain of crowding. When to use cosmetics has also taken some learning. Says one woman: "I took makeup with me the first time we went on bivouac. I didn't touch it the whole time; I never took it along again...
...days and nights, the bestselling author relies heavily on eyewitness accounts from participants and survivors. Incredible Victory, his narrative of the Battle of Midway, crackled with aging voices from both sides. For Lonely Vigil: Coastwatchers of the Solomons, the author traveled 40,000 miles (including a rugged three-day bivouac on Guadalcanal) to assemble this story of the men and women who flashed reports of Japanese ship and plane movements and rescued more than 100 downed pilots. A number of foundering sailors also owe their lives to the coastwatchers. One was a 26-year-old lieutenant (j.g.) named John Fitzgerald...
Should it come about, it is conceivable that hundreds of thousands of dollars could be saved in travel expenses and the more monstrous requirements of packaging and selling the candidate on commercial television. Men of means might even be lured to the shadow bivouac at their own expense. More important, the energy of the candidates would be husbanded and expended on meaningful effort. The public would be spared political oversell. The successful challenger presumably would arise on the morning after his election reasonably clear of eye and steady of limb. Within a few hours, he would confirm the designation...
Calling their action "Dewey Canyon Three," the Vietnam Veterans group hopes to attract 5000 Vietnam veterans to Washington April 19-23 to conduct mock search-and-destroy missions and bivouac on Capitol Hill. In Boston, the local branch of the radi-cal veterans' group plans to invade Government Center tomorrow morning to demonstrate to city officials and passersby the kinds of tactics used against civilian populations in Vietnam...
...April camp-in, veterans will set up tents "just like a bivouac," Sachs said, adding, "We plan an orderly, legal civil disobedience, although we haven't worked out the details...