Word: desertion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pentagon argued that to let draft dodgers or deserters come home without proper punishment would undermine military discipline. Said General Benade: "Service members would certainly be less hesitant to desert if they felt they could do so with reasonable confidence that once the conflict was over they would be granted immunity...
...standard one-volume college Shakespeare. The Riverside's greater bulk (it weights in at 36 oz. to the Pelican's 31 oz.) gives the plays more room and is easier to use and easier on the eyes than the Pelican. The choice of which edition to take to the desert island is solved...
...MEXICAN desert: austere, stripped, inhospitable and unforgiving--an enigma to all but its inhabitants. It dares men to tackle it and survive; the "Old Ones" accept the challenge and win the necessary sustenance from this grudging and barren host. Their faces wrinkled and cracked like the adobe they have stolen from the earth, these Chicanos lead a life radically different from that of most Americans. Here churchbells are prefered to the telephone's ring, John Chancellor is voted down in favor of radio music, Sundays are for praying and old women pick up trash by the roadside. Necessity...
Robert Coles's latest book, The Old Ones, is about life in the New Mexican desert, as described by five elderly residents. Alex Harris's photographs bring us a people with faces carved by the wind, eyes burnished by the sun; a people who look directly at us, burning their way into our memory...
...think you ought to go to Harvard Divinity School," he suggested. "There you are religious in spite of the place, not because of it." Lured by the additional incentives of Widener Library and a generous scholarship, Gomes applied and ventured into what others warned him was a spiritual desert...