Word: dual
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Lieut. General Thomas Tackaberry, commander of the XV111 Airborne Corps, was the first man out of the first C-141. Standing in the drop zone, he said the mass assault had a dual purpose. It tested how well the Army and Air Force could carry off such a huge troop movement (very well with a brigade, but a whole division is so much larger that there may be barely enough planes to deliver it across the sea). The exercise did something for the individual paratroopers as well. Said Tackaberry: "Psychologically, it helps a man to know he's part...
...this shrewd and sensitive biography reveals, the scholar-poet had reasons for his dual nature. When his willful and vivacious mother, Sarah Jane, succumbed to cancer on Housman's twelfth birthday in 1871, an idyllic rural boyhood came to a traumatic end. His ineffectual solicitor father, Edward, remarried, took to drink, and in a fit of modernism had his five sons circumcised when Alfred, the eldest, was at least 14. It was a shock to the youth, and one of the causes of his later withdrawal into a formal persona from which he would rarely emerge. He reported...
FLABBY, OTIOSE, AND even worse, whimsical: labels that might be affixed to an economy increasingly mired in lassitude, beset by the twin problems of inflation and recession. As if those dual difficulties were not sufficient to twist minds from Washington to Cambridge, the latest productivity figures show an alarmingly small rise--indicating that the most jaded and chronic criticisms may in fact be borne out. It's crisis time, and the crescent encompasses a region less foreign than the Near East...
Keeping income and outgo in their correct ledgers during Reagan's fund-raising tours may give his accountants ulcers and has prompted an almost continuous IRS audit. But there is no indication that Reagan has been doing anything improper, and dual-purpose trips are not unique in U.S. politics...
...Israelis who have immigrated to the U.S., about 250,000 have settled in New York City. The chief of the urban design group in the administration of Mayor Ed Koch is Raquel Ramati, an Israeli who is also a U.S. citizen. Elias Yeheskel, 30, a dual citizen, is an adviser to the New York State office for motion picture and TV development. At New York University, when an Israeli professor and his ten graduate students, all Israelis, decided to conduct classes in Hebrew, a dean asked, "Is this Tel Aviv University or is it N. Y.U&#quot; When a senior...