Word: method
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Viet Nam is a new kind of war, and new also is the chaplain's method of ministering to it. Since U.S. troops are so widely scattered, chaplains have be come airborne circuit riders. "It's now a matter of riding helicopters and going where the troops are," says Major General Charles E. Brown, a Methodist minister who is the Army's top chaplain. "We used to hold three or four or maybe ten services a week. Now our chaplains are saying services in the combat area to at least ten and sometimes as many...
...Reward for Services. The mind and the method functioned faultlessly in Palestine. Meinertzhagen cunningly contrived a leak of false information that led the Turks to shift troops from Beersheba for the defense of Gaza. Where upon Allenby easily captured Beersheba, and with it a vast system of wells containing the water he required for a desert war. A similar but more elaborate ruse, involving 15,000 dummy horses and a secret concentration of 35,000 troops and 385 siege guns, set up what was probably the greatest Allied victory of World War I. The siege guns tore...
...half courses have been tentatively designated as Expository Writing 101, exposition and historical inquiry; Expository Writing 103, exposition and literary analysis; Expository Writing 104, exposition and narration; Expository Writing 105, exposition and the scientific method...
...court was all too well aware that it faced a ticklish problem. Under the U.S. Constitution, federal judges are named to serve "during good behavior," which in effect means for life. They can only be removed by the cumbersome method of impeachment by the House of Representatives and conviction by the Senate-which has resulted in the removal of only four judges since...
...acronym of the opening lines of the Aeneid-Arma virumque cano. Ennis is intended to be seen as Aeneas, founder of the Roman race after the fall of Troy. The mock heroics are well sustained, though Burgess now modestly sees the Virgilian parallel as a "tyro's method of giving his story a backbone," as Joyce used the Odyssey to underpin Ulysses. But Burgess is not Virgil any more than Joyce was Homer. His hero loses nothing by being a comic rather than a classic. He has also been given another dimension. If Ennis is not much...