Word: civilianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...junta had to call out troops to smash a storekeepers' strike inspired by Déjoie supporters, the next day put Port-au-Prince under martial law-a move which aroused fears that Haiti's junta might not yet be ready to turn over power to civilian authority...
...prevent cattle stealing, soon became a regiment. Unkilted and wearing khaki battle dress instead, the Watch fought in World War II in Greece, Tobruk, Alamein, Burma, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, Germany. The regiment's most famed legendary wartime exploit: arresting General Eisenhower while he was roaming Gibraltar in civilian clothes (Ike was held, fuming and incommunicado, in the guardhouse for almost four hours...
...skilled, productive, and responsible. They suggest that these pay increases go into effect only with non-commissioned officers and commissioned officers, those whom the government feels have a large enough stake in the military to make it a career. The Plan would also bring the salaries of civilian technical employees of the military closer to the standards of private industry, and give recruits, especially those with families, something closer to a living wage...
...year. Engine Charlie found at the year's opening (July 1) that, with the increasing complexity of weapons pushing costs upward, money was pouring out at the rate of $40 billion a year. He ordered cuts of 100,000 in military manpower and 53,000 in Defense Department civilian employment. Last week Engine Charlie tightened the budgetary bolts again. With President Eisenhower's O.K., he ordered an additional cut of 100,000 in uniformed manpower by next June. (An order for a further nick of 30,000 or so in the civilian payroll will probably be issued soon...
...Orval Faubus, until today civilian commander of the Guard, called up some of the guardsmen Sept. 2, he said, to prevent Negroes from entering Central High School and to prevent violence...