Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...social status running [Sept. 11] had attained. This innocence led to alienation when I declined all invitations to "go run in the park." Not only did I lack satin shorts and expensive sneakers, I did not speak jog-ese. Here I've been, dressed in fatigues and combat boots, double-timing in platoon formation without realizing the social significance of my actions...
...them to pressure members of the Senate. They lined up the Business Roundtable and General Motors. They made it a patriotic issue to vote for this bill. The Administration put anything on the table to get votes. They really turned out the troops. How could any of us combat that kind of power...
...domestic issue, inflation. He told a press conference last Thursday that "the time for wasteful spending is over" and pledged to cut as much as possible from the fiscal 1980 federal budget, which will be introduced in January. Especially vulnerable are some of the programs Carter has pushed to combat unemployment. One example: the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, which will cost $11.3 billion in fiscal 1979, will probably be trimmed, partly because it has fallen short of its goal of finding jobs for the hard-core unemployed...
...troops into combat in Korea and Viet Nam with such gallantry that he was twice awarded the Silver Star, the nation's third highest combat medal. He moved easily from battlefield to classroom, from Pentagon desk to international command, gathering ribbons and rank along the way and, last year, becoming the youngest four-star general in the Army. Then, last spring, Sam Sims Walker became trapped in a bureaucratic Pentagon crossfire, and last week he resigned from the Army after more than 32 years of service-at the same time bringing into the open a battle between generals...
Faced with the intractability of crime and street prostitution that the proliferation of pornography brings with it, Boston tried at least to keep it all in one place. The "combat zone," a two-block downtown area full of strip joints, peep shows and streetwalkers, was designated an Adult Entertainment District, and police tended to ignore "victimless crime." But in a few months the rate of street solicitation and crime, along with police corruption, rose alarmingly. After a Harvard football player was stabbed to death, the authorities had to crack down again...