Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through relentless work and discipline, rises to the rank of colonel and marries a brigadier's daughter. England's Great Depression era army becomes his life, starting when his widowed father drills him in cartography at the age of seven and ending with the disintegration of his civilian marriage over 30 years later...
Sillitoe contrasts his military prowess and civilian naivete through his sexual initiation with two sisters. His treatment of the two shop girls and their family is both comic and penetrating. Later, when retired colonel Scorton manages a bowling and billiards hall, Sillitoe again shows his feel for common people through his description of the clintele. His portrait of Scorton's underling, named Oxton, is the book's best characterization. The retired gunner is a lovable bachelor dependent on the need to serve...
Ravenal's "modest proposal for ending Armageddon" also includes firm U.S. commitments not to bomb civilian targets and to foreswear the first-strike use of nuclear weapons. The result, he argues would be a lessening of the probability of an American first strike, accompanied by our own diminished vulnerability...
Nonetheless, Mayor Hofheinz strenuously opposes forming a civilian board to review complaints. Local attitudes he believes, are such that the board would be little more than "a rubber stamp for the department." Says he: "I know how this city works...
...Committee, the main Israel lobby in Washington, rushed out a two-page white paper claiming that Begin's reputation as a terrorist was a "myth." By A.l.P.A.C.'s considerably sanitized account, he was a freedom fighter and his men attacked only military targets, always trying to avoid civilian casualties...