Word: combatative
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the fighting Amazon image in American movies like Exodus and Judith and in a stream of popular novels, women in the army are not allowed in combat-or anywhere near the fighting. Instead, they serve mostly in support jobs as typists, clerks, nurses and teachers. The reason, says Hazleton, is that Israel is committed to paternal protectiveness toward women: "The army exists to protect Israel's women, not to endanger them in its ranks...
...these developments indicate a sharp rise in support for the Sandinistas, once a small group of only 200 revolutionary insurgents, now at the vanguard of the anti-Somoza movement with a combat force of over 1000 and widespread popular approval, especially in the poverty-stricken countryside. But regardless of their popularity, the FSLN can never succeed with a purely military approach. The strength of Somoza's power derives from his control of the 7500-member Guardia National, a combination army and secret police force trained and equipped by the U.S. The campesinosand slum-dwellers of Managua have no weapons...
...Faculty committee that designed General Education intended it to fulfill two purposes: to combat academic specialization and to provide students with the cultural foundations for life in American society. But changes in the academic and social environment have made these goals appear in a very different light. The title of that committee's 1945 report, "General Education in a Free Society," immediately conjures up the specter of the Fascist society that America had just helped defeat in war. When President Conant in 1936 called for an educational program that could resist the "wave of anti-intellectualism sweeping around the world...
...shocking it is that we tend to ignore the rights of teachers and overemphasize the rights of students! Will union contracts begin to demand combat...
Crimson coach Carole Kleinfelder shook up the Harvard line-up, turning to her big players to combat Princeton's strong-rebounding squad. With Sue Hewitt, Sue Aboucher and Greis joining Curry and Carle, the Harvard five roared back to within eight points. At 13:54, Leslie Greis hit a turnaround jumper to close the score to 41-33, but that was the end of the Harvard dream. The effort was too little, too late...