Word: conscript
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...estimated 350,000 people, one-tenth of the population, are unemployed, and last week Bourguiba ordered all men over 20 who are not in the army to join a conscript labor force in a desperate effort to jack up the impoverished economy. In a fit of nationalism, he refused to devalue his currency along with France, and thereby priced Tunisia's products out of the world market...
...wife, Ballet Dancer Julika, when she was half dead with tuberculosis; he also left unpaid debts and broke Swiss law by failing, as a reservist, to ask the authorities for permission to leave the country. "I'm not Stiller!" Sam keeps shouting. But after Stiller's old conscript's uniform, much moth-eaten, is tried on Sam for size and found baggy, he is told: "You've grown thinner...
...magazine techniques, often wraps a news story around a personality. In a cover story last week on Franz-Josef Strauss, West Germany's Defense Minister, Der Spiegel scored a beat on the daily press with its disclosure that Strauss is planning to supplement the nation's conscript army with a highly specialized, 30,000-man reserve corps...
...needs clarification. Stevenson's recent expressed hope that the manpower draft can be ended would seem in complete contrast with his party's normal orientation toward a program of balanced military preparedness. But a professional army composed of 20-year men, on examination, actually seems more reliable than a conscript army. Such an army would be less costly and more effective, Stevenson feels, because it would not be crippled by the need to retrain completely every two years. In addition, a highly mobile professionalized land force would be better able to cope with the problems of limited wars like Korea...
...Fiinfzehn-the model number (0-8-15) of the Wehrmacht service pistol-which in Germany is a term roughly equivalent to G.I. The book snickered behind the officers' ramrod backs, put in a plea for the dignity of the individual in uniform, and demonstrated hilariously how a canny conscript like Gunner Asch could win at the old army game simply by hiding behind regulations. Old army pros denounced it, and the publisher's office was ransacked by hoodlums. But Gunner Asch became the talk of the land and Null-Acht-Funfzehn the bestselling novel of postwar West Germany...