Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jammed the beach, trampling the candy-striped awnings underfoot. A similar throng gathered not far away at Kirikiri Prison, just outside Lagos, the capital. Both high-spirited crowds were assembled to witness the public executions of some 30 soldiers, including four lieutenant colonels and six majors, and a lone civilian. A special military board had convicted them of planning the abortive coup of Feb. 13, in which Head of State Murtala Mohammed was assassinated (TIME, March...
They slip into the college gymnasiums that dot the East coast from Harvard's IAB to the fastness of Orono, Maine and Buffalo with civilian anonymity and emerge from their solitary dressing rooms as marked...
Keenly Felt. The local civilian populations along both sides of the border have become victims of both government and guerrilla reprisals. Salisbury has charged that Zimbabwe guerrillas have mutilated civilians suspected of being informers. There have also been reports of atrocities by Rhodesian forces against civilians...
...workers, the Government could offer to pay part of their wages for a limited time. He argues that this would reduce the need for welfare and unemployment compensation and would be far less costly than public service employment. Carter would also use the Government to create Civilian Conservation Corps-type jobs for 18- to 21-year-olds who are out of work...
Agreeing with West that Patty had been forced to go along with her captors, Orne also spoke of her being "dissociated" from reality. The portly psychiatrist said Patty was the victim of a traumatic neurosis that is "fortunately not something we see in civilian life. In fact, the only time I've seen it is in [prisoner of war] returnees." Orne admitted to Bancroft that Patty might be deceiving him and others, but he added that after weighing all the possibilities, he felt "the weight of the data is unequivocally that she was not simulating...