Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attorney general, he organized the state's wartime civilian defense; backed exclusion of Japanese from the West Coast; staged a dramatic raid with a fleet of Fish & Game Commission boats on four offshore gambling ships, had them closed down after an all-night battle with fire hoses...
...Britain, birdwatchers reported that several chiffchaffs had been sighted in the southern counties. Sir John Anderson, until recently chairman of the Advisory Committee on Atomic Energy, warned the House of Commons to plan now for civilian defense in an atomic war. Shop counters were piled high with oranges and lemons (the British had foresightedly cleared the bulk of the Palestine citrus crops before beginning troop withdrawals). Fruits and vegetables were arriving from South Africa. But the average Briton was still plagued with shortages. He was limited to a shillingsworth of meat (tuppence of it in corned beef), and fats...
Dwight Eisenhower, in civilian clothes just six weeks, climbed back into uniform and rushed to West Point to play a supporting role in a dewy-eyed, unmilitary picture with son John, daughter-in-law Barbara Jean, and first grandchild Dwight David...
Like many G.I.s, Willie and Joe found it hard to get back into civilian life. Like their creator, baby-faced Cartoonist Bill Mauldin, they had found the issues much simpler Up Front than Back Home. This week, tired of coping with the problem of reconverting Willie, Joe and himself, Mauldin quit as a syndicated newspaper cartoonist...
...facts show that the tactics of movement in concentrated force recently adopted by the new Greek army leaders have proved wiser and brought the first good results in the Pieria battle. The civilian population bears the brunt of the bandits, and is right in asking the army to guard them and their villages. However, this is not the wisest way of coping with banditry because, if dispersed, the army is weak. It is only possible to defeat banditry by concentration of our forces. The army must strike and its punches must be harder than those of the bandits. Therefore...