Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...article focuses on charges filed last year against a Radcliffe student for soliciting sex in the Combat Zone in Boston. The student, referred to as "Emily" in the article, in turn implicated a Harvard summer school student, a Harvard Buildings and Grounds employee and a Harvard undergraduate in the alleged prostitution activity...
...when he perused a Civil War encyclopedia. The intrigue became an obsession 20 years later as he launched his 42-book career. A stickler for accuracy, he did prodigious research, visiting and revisiting Gettysburg and Andersonville for his Civil War novels and flying eleven combat missions with the British Air Command for his World War II stories. His work was also the basis for the Academy Award-winning film The Best Years of Our Lives...
...research grant from the U.S. Office of Education and $300,000 from the Allied Chemical Corp., Music was exhaustively researched for over two years to discover, among other things, what kids did and did not know about the subject. Its primary goal, says the WETA team, is to combat the lack of music education in schools today. "The state of teaching is at best haphazard," says Sidlin, who taught in public schools for seven years and has subsequently entertained young audiences at over 350 youth concerts. "In some schools now they must justify retaining a music teacher by saying that...
Lewis's opinions are grounded on a thorough knowledge of firearms. He has been trained in combat shooting at Smith and Western Academy in Springfield, Mass., and at the National Rifle Association Police Firearms Instructors Training School at Camp Perry, Ohio, where he taught last summer. He has also been certified by Boston's Board of Education to teach firearms at the New England Security Officers Training Academy...
...grueling days that ended last week, a mock combat raged in southern Germany between two opposing powerful military forces: the "invading" Orange and the defending Blue. Code-named Carbon Edge, the "war" was a NATO military exercise involving more than 50,000 troops, 4,000 tanks and armored personnel carriers, 7,500 other vehicles, 90 fixed-wing aircraft and 500 helicopters. Carbon Edge was by far the biggest single event of Reforger 77, this year's edition of NATO's traditional fall training extravaganza. West German, British, Canadian, Dutch and Belgian troops and American forces based in Europe...