Word: camped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think up a reason to be deferred, e.g., as a student, a farmer, a scientist or a hardship case. Thousands of 17-and 18-year-olds exercise their alternative right of fulfilling military obligations with six months of active duty and 7½ years of weekly drill and summer camp in the reserves or National Guard...
...enough to grow profitably in all of Russia's diverse climates and soils. So powerful was Lysenko that not even Nikolai's brother, a leading member of the mighty Academy of Sciences itself (and later its president), could save Nikolai Vavilov, who died in a Siberian concentration camp...
...army. A Communist-lining journalist, Carlos Franqui, is in a powerful spot as editor of the official rebel newspaper, Revolución. But Cubans know the U.S. too well to swallow the usual Communist whoppers. Any party that wins free elections in Cuba will doubtless be in the Western camp...
...primitive setting of the Sierra Maestra, women ate dried codfish and roots, tried to cling to femininity and spent odd moments applying treasured nail polish or borrowing some peasant's iron to put a crease in their riding pants. In keeping with the rebel camp's notable strictness, born of the rebels' single-minded attention to the tasks of war, the women lived apart from...
...week's directive from the Adjutant General. But P.O.A.U. is still casting an uneasy eye around the armed services. The organization is currently checking into the possibility of undue Catholic pressure in the naming of the I Corps Artillery's post in Korea four years ago as Camp St. Barbara and the report that artillerymen there are calling themselves "St. Barbara's Own."* "This thing seems to be spreading almost like 'Kilroy was here,' " said P.O.A.U.'s Lowell this week, and then dropped an artilleryman's salvo into the camp of Senator John...