Word: dismount
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Head Count. When the topic is Germany, the new, relatively friendly "spirit of Moscow" obviously does not apply. The cold war's thaw can turn into a freeze over trifling matters-in last week's case, a demand that the passengers on Berlin-bound allied convoys dismount from their vehicles to be counted by Russian soldiers...
...Dismounting was one of them, and it was made almost inadvertently in the hurry to get a 1,500-man U.S. battle group to Berlin a week after the Wall went up in August 1961. At the Marienborn checkpoint, the Russians complained that they could not get an accurate count. With brass bands, massed crowds and Vice President Lyndon Johnson waiting impatiently in Berlin for the convoy to arrive, Colonel Glover S. Johns Jr. ordered his men to dismount to speed things up. Ever since, the Russians have frequently demanded that troops in large convoys get out of their vehicles...
Reform was the fiery charger that carried Architect Fernando Belaúnde Terry into the presidency of Peru last June, and now he cannot dismount. Belaúnde promised to redistribute land, conjured up visions of public housing to replace the slums of Lima, talked of a vast road system to open up the rich lowlands beyond the Andes. But the most emotional pledge of all-and one echoed by all his opponents-was a promise to do something drastic about International Petroleum Co., the Standard Oil of New Jersey affiliate that owns one of Peru's richest oilfields...
Outside the Yard, at Johnston Gate, the Lancers will present arms and the Governor will dismount and walk inside the Yard to meet President Pusey and University Marshal J. Hampton Robb...
...vast bureaucracy of tens of thousands of political payrollers is around our neck." Then, switching to a proverb he never heard in his own Illinois. Shuman said: "Our situation in agriculture brings to mind the old adage, 'He who rides a tiger should first make plans for dismounting.' The challenge farmers face is how to dismount the farm program 'tiger' without getting wounded...