Word: civilianized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their testimony, an array of uniformed officers and their civilian boss, Defense Secretary Harold Brown, made a strong case that continued U.S. use of the canal, and American defense of it, would be much better ensured if the treaties are accepted than if they are rejected. Contended General George Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs: "United States military interests in the Panama Canal are in its use, not its ownership. Our capability to defend the Panama Canal will be enhanced through cooperation with the government of Panama...
...cost of defense manpower-about two-tenths of 1% of the defense budget." While spending for defense personnel did rise from about $22 billion in 1964 to more than $50 billion in 1976, in part because of the higher pay scale, the primary cause was the higher cost of civilian defense employees and a military retirement system enacted at the end of World...
...silence is eerie. Shell holes seem a natural part of the land. They are everywhere, vivid as footsteps in snow, unmistakable evidence that the Israeli 175-mm. artillery guns have been put to frequent use. According to people who fled the area, there were few civilian deaths. Refugees said they were not bombed as they fled north on the road...
Laker anticipated the difficulty of starting a low-fare service in the fall and seems prepared to ride out a lackluster winter. He insists that he can break even if only 189 of the 345 seats on each of his flights are filled. Laker, who started as a civilian pilot and made his first coup in 1948 supplying planes to the Berlin airlift, runs a strict, no-frills operation on the ground as well as in the air. Headquarters of the line-which up to now has mostly operated charter flights-are stuffed into four floors of a Gatwick hangar...
...make it, or won't make it, and one who chose not to: the author himself, who gave up a promising dance career to become a writer. It is this which makes Stevens' book unique, and at times intensely personal: "What am I doing in these street clothes ...a civilian and a foreigner, when I can feel every stretch, contraction, and effort of the muscles...in my own body?" Stevens laces his writing with colorful anecdotes from his own background, and the authority of experience blends with nostalgia...