Word: conscriptive
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...general becoming more conservative. Caroline Stewart, 34, a Philadelphia journalist, managed to juggle both the new morality and the old during the '70s. As she grew up in Pittsburgh, her father blinked the message "Stay a virgin at all costs." She headed to Washington and became a grudging conscript in the sexual revolution. After her first romance broke up, she recalls, "I was wild, for me. Many people had a great smorgasbord of relationships. You had them without giving thought to what you needed instead of what you wanted...
...substantial greenery accessible to the capital's 5 million residents, teeming with deer, squirrels and wild rabbits, and acting as a natural air conditioner to offset the heat and pollution emitted by the capital's 2.5 million cars. July has left the capital choking, as hundreds of firefighters and conscript soldiers battled to stop Parnitha's inferno from sweeping down the mountain's southern slopes and attacking the capital's suburbs. The government declared a tentative victory, but a brown cloud cloaked the city and filled it with a stench of smoke, while chalky gray ash rained down for days...
...enhance both Russia's prestige and authority and his own. Crucial to this end is the revival of Russian armed power. The address to the Federal Assembly touched on this in ways that have tended to escape the attention of foreign observers. Recognizing the inefficiency of a massive conscript army, Putin aims to increase the proportion of volunteer recruits and to modernize their equipment. More strikingly, he has announced a program of shipbuilding to restore the navy to something like its previous strength...
...extended regiment of no sleep, Adams recalls a particularly harrowing incident.“I walked out of my house and onto Mass Avenue and [saw] a mass of soldiers coming towards me.” Having not slept in days, Adams panicked, thinking the troops were there to conscript him. Only later, in a more coherent state, did he realize it was Memorial Day and the soldiers were war veterans on parade. In the end, Adams received a medical deferment thanks to his frazzled state.“I’m not proud...
...relative peace, to living under foreign occupation, in fear, poverty, civil war and terror? Under blatantly false and illegal pretenses, the U.S. invaded a country that had not attacked it or its allies. About 40,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed, not to mention untold thousands of Iraqi conscript soldiers; the Americans are too arrogant to even keep count, publishing only their own fatalities. The reference to the "liberator" would be laughable if it weren't so tragic. Nils Wetterlind Singapore...