Word: civilianized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...also China's third largest city, Tientsin (pop. 4.3 million), and Tangshan (pop. 1 million), an industrial and mining center. China's government publicly admitted only "great losses to the people, life and property" and turned aside foreign offers of aid, but it also rallied troops and civilian rescue teams to deal with the disaster...
...Indian scientists used fissionable materials, taken from a Canadian reactor, to build what they called a "peaceful nuclear device." After the bomb was exploded, Canada shut off nuclear aid to India. To keep the U.S. from following suit, the Indian government pledged to use American materials exclusively in its civilian reactors. The Natural Resources Defense Council, a U.S. environmental-law group, worried nonetheless about India's capacity to create more A-bombs and asked the NRC to stop the uranium sale. In response, the NRC's commissioners decided to hold two days of hearings in Washington...
...knew that she wanted to become a conductor. She set about mastering a wide variety of orchestral instruments; she tooted the baritone horn in her high school band and played the double bass in the orchestra at Indiana University. She was also a junior golf champion and a wartime civilian flying instructor for the Navy. When she graduated from college in 1947, one of her teachers warned her that orchestra conducting was a male preserve, and so she went to the Juilliard School to study choral conducting with Robert Shaw, now music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Shaw soon...
...area were Palestinians in refugee camps. The Christians have leveled some of their heaviest firepower on the camps. Three weeks ago they captured Jisr Basha in East Beirut with heavy casualties, and last week they were mopping up around larger Tel Zaatar, which once housed 17,000 civilian Palestinians...
Doggedness and honesty are not a bad combination. The middleaged, civilian part of Wilson's memoirs has its own interest. The writer survived his success, and even had a little fun with it. He watched his marriage to a beautiful and decent woman wind down to nothing, without understanding why it was happening. He then survived divorce and the period that has become the eighth age of modern man, in which the newly single 40-year-old gawks around like a teenager, wondering miserably how to get girls. He married again, with great love and luck, lived...