Word: direct
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Graduate students in 79 fields which the Department of the Army has decided have "direct military application" will still be eligible for admission to the Army two-year Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program...
HENRIK: You always were a good peasant, Bert. Direct. But an adaption? As I sat there, backstage, listening to his words and repeating my words softly for my own ears, I felt as though my body was being desecrated. Once I looked down and I swear my legs ended at the knees. Oh McBain, vile college lad, why did you poke about in the Doctor's speeches and spoil all the careful development of the younger-generation-knocking-on-the-door theme? There was no method to your wretched emmendations...
...spokesman for the Minneapolis-based association said it hopes to indict the President for defrauding the public in the 1964 elections, and involving the United States in a war without the direct consent of Congress...
...airplanes which came and strafed and bombed their villages, and they'd fled to the cities. They'd lost their means of livelihood. In a sense they'd almost lost their manlihood. Their indigation at the government of South Vietnam and at the Americans was very pointed and direct. They pointed the finger at us as having driven them from their land...
Suppose the war in Vietnam is brought to an end sometime this year. Eckstein estimates that the direct and immediate saving will exceed $10 billion as "spending for munitions, planes, helicopters, food, gasoline, transportation, and extra troops pay tapers...