Word: civilianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Armstrong commanded the artillery battery which fired the first atomic round. At the Nevada proving grounds, he had men from the Artillery School and numerous civilian scientists under his command...
...Lemnitzer moved like a nonconductor. In December he smoothly headed off a drive by the new civilian space agency (NASA) to take over Huntsville, but he promised to serve any NASA needs. His own strongest efforts had long since been thrown behind development of more earthy necessities, e.g., a mortar-spotting radar in 1953, a plastic grenade launcher this year. His steady emphasis on combat readiness as top priority promises to scale the Army's space push down to manageable proportions. In word and deed he seemed just the steady old pro the Army needed to get back...
...cousin, Colonel Fadhil Mahdawi. Premier Kassem himself is known to have turned on the television in the middle of a Cabinet session, listened to the colonel's brutal buffooneries and irrelevancies, and murmured: "What a jewel we have here." Last week, with 16 officers and one civilian on trial for their lives, accused of taking part in the Mosul army revolt in March, sheep-eyed, sheep-headed Judge Mahdawi was in sparkling form as he interrupted a witness...
...popped up to say: "If my defense of the People's Court and the Iraqi people means that I am a Communist, then I have the honor to be so." Mahdawi read the verdicts amid a storm of applause: six officers to be shot, nine officers and the civilian sentenced for life, one officer acquitted...
...private reading of their bishops; but their complaint turned up in the liberal French Catholic magazine Témoignage Chrétien (Christian Witness). "Arbitrary arrests and detentions are numerous," they wrote. "Interrogations are conducted only too normally by methods that we must call torture. Summary executions of prisoners, civilian and military . . . are not exceptional. Finally, it is not unusual during operations for the wounded to be finished...