Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...female plebes, however, will undergo the same painful, often humiliating seven-week initiation ritual that male cadets have dubbed "Beast Barracks." Its main features: incessant needling from upperclassmen, split-second obedience to their slightest commands and constant criticism of plebes' posture. Though women are still barred from combat, female cadets will have to learn how to heft the 10¼-Ib. M-14 rifle and to fire the 32-Ib. M-60 machine...
Sykes comes into his own when the Second World War begins. Waugh was so hated by his men that his commanding officer refused to send him into combat because he was sure he would "be killed, and not by the enemy." The Commander went further and posted an allnight guard around Waugh's sleeping quarters. Towards the end of the war Waugh met Winston Churchill's son Randolph in the bar of White's Club, and as a result wound up being parachuted behind the lines in Yugoslavia. Waugh's first diary entry reads "Tito like lesbian" and from then...
...worse last week. Two Lebanese air force Hawker-Hunter fighter jets strafed and rocketed Moslem and Palestinian troops that were besieging Damur, a rightist-held town a few miles south of Beirut International Airport. The attack represented the first time that Lebanese armed forces had plunged openly into major combat since the shooting began nine months...
Franco cannot be blamed for the recession that has engulfed Spain along with the rest of the industrialized world, but he had no program to combat it. Investment in industry fell 10% last year, and by official estimate national production rose a bare 1% (by some outside estimates it declined 1%). About 700,000 Spanish workers, or 5.4% of the labor force, are jobless. Another 8% or so have had to seek work abroad, and other European countries are now telling their "guest workers" to go home. Rising oil prices have exacerbated Spain's already unhealthy payments deficit. Pressure...
...third draft of his column. "And going to screenings is not like going to the movies. First of all, you see a lot of bad movies--the great movies are fun, a lot of it is a lark, but a lot of it's shit. Sometimes it's like combat duty." Rich feels most successful, most satisfied with the way his life is going, when he is writing well. When he is writing badly, all the townhouses, finances, telephone-answering machines and New York Post messengers in the world can't keep him from feeling like a failure...