Word: clench
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...army units. Marines attached to the four-nation, 52,000-man multinational force that has been patrolling Beirut since the Israeli withdrawal from the capital have helped in the effort to improve the Lebanese army. At a recent training session, six Marines ordered a battalion of Lebanese soldiers to clench their fists and scream. It took a while for the Lebanese to catch on, but soon they were yelling exuberantly. Says a Marine corporal: "These guys feel great just going through drills with a hundred other guys because they never worked together in a large group before...
...making and keeping of an enemy lies not in his redeeming social value but in the peculiar passion he lends to life. There is simply no force in nature like him, none that can so suck the oxygen from the air, so tighten the skin about the ears, so clench the fists, sweat the palms, so press the tongue against the mouth's roof or stretch the nerves Like piano wires. His concentration on you is total. He cares more about your welfare than you do yourself, and he asks so little in return. Only that you continue...
...doctrine expoused by Crafts and Hauther and carried out too faithfully by the forlom Princetonian, Napolitano, goes far beyond the cliched dangers of pre-professionalism. These folks achieve in college merely to clench a career. They also view the entier four-year experience with scorn--as a game played against a system which threatens to slap them with a bum grade and send their lives, families, future children and bank accounts down the tubes. These darlings of the New and More Vicious Darwinism rationalize their suggestions in a conclusion entitled "Now You Are Ready to fight"..."No grad school...