Word: combatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hope and his entourage. Leading a crew of six, Linde routinely carries out five-day missions to bases in Hawaii, Guam and the Azores. Her dream, however, is to fly the fighter jets that she once trained others to operate. But since those elite birds are designated for combat, women have been barred from flying them on Air Force missions. "It was always frustrating knowing that I couldn't fly in a fighter plane," says Linde. "But you can't keep knocking your head against a wall...
Each of the U.S. armed forces has regulations, based on congressional legislation, designed to prevent female soldiers from being killed in action or captured as prisoners of war. Instead, women are limited to "combat support" roles. But in an era when combat no longer occurs on clear-cut front lines, supported by a rear echelon, these rules, established after World War II, have created some peculiar quandaries. While Linde and her female colleagues are not permitted to fly fighter aircraft, Air Force women regularly pilot KC-135 tankers that refuel the fighters and make an even more tempting target...
...exclusionary rule, "we will now go as far as we can within these legislative constraints," explains David Armor, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management and Personnel, who headed the task force. "We're developing a clear rationale for opening all jobs, except those which are strictly combat." The highlights of the reforms...
...Bush basked in the afterglow of victory, he once again diluted his p.r. triumph with remarks that would be more appropriate for an overeager Boy Scout who had just won a survival-hike merit badge. At a chili lunch in Worland, Wyo., he told an appreciative audience, "I need combat pay for last night, I'll tell you." To a high school chemistry class in Cheyenne, he described live television: "You know, it's Tension City when you're in there...
...hurled angry clumps of words, and their clumps broke and powdered against each other's gleaming indignation. Not a molecule of coherent information emerged from the encounter -- except the encounter itself. The medium is the message, in Marshall McLuhan's famous dictum. Bush afterward compared the exchange to combat, but if so, it was the combat of Saturday morning cartoons: Bang! -- Poof! Boom! -- Poof! Language disintegrated on impact. When Bush slugged Rather with the line about Rather's once walking off the set of the CBS Evening News, the anchorman looked for an instant like Wile E. Coyote when, gimlet...