Word: manual
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...soldiers of different rank is not harmful, and usually not improper." On the Navy's first coed carrier to include servicewomen, the U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower, couples who confessed their love to the captain quietly received new assignments, without repercussion. The Air Force takes a different attitude. Although a manual allows that a marriage between an officer and enlisted person "is not, by itself evidence of misconduct," it reserves the right to take punitive action "based on prior fraternization...
...only British Prime Minister to learn electioneering from an American President: "[Harold] Wilson brought a transatlantic zeal to the election campaign. His Bible was Theodore H. White's The Making of the President, his bedside reading the speeches of John F. Kennedy, his handbook Larry O'Brien's campaign manual. As he crisscrossed the country, he studded each of his orations with at least one Kennedy idea or phrase...Labor's election manifesto read like the New Frontier, with its promise to get the nation moving again along 'a new way of life that will stir our hearts, rekindle...
Approximately 20 students gathered last night in the cozy confines of the Adams House Upper Common Room to hear Sesshu Foster read from his book "City Terrace Field Manual...
Learning BASIC language from a manual with his pal Paul Allen, Trey produced two programs in the eighth grade: one that converted a number in one mathematical base to a different base, and another (easier to explain) that played tic-tac-toe. Later, having read about Napoleon's military strategies, he devised a computer version of Risk, a board game he liked in which the goal is world domination...
This is the season of gift giving, and so it seems fitting to ask: Is there a celebrity who has given us more than Martha Stewart? For the past five years she has gently elevated our taste with her monthly life-style manual, MARTHA STEWART LIVING, even sharing with us her instructive personal calendar ("December 20th: Pot up pastel calla lilies and freesias; December 26th: Off to Egypt with godchildren"). This year she has also graced us with her Martha by Mail product catalog, each item--like the set of "Araucana egg soaps"--a homage to muted chic...