Word: objects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your story raises once again the specter of peacetime conscription, it is important to understand that when men are drafted in peacetime, it is to train them to be prepared to defend their homes in the event of a war; nothing more. I believe that most Americans do not object to this concept. Subsequently, any future draft law should have a proviso specifically stating that draftees will not be assigned to duty outside the continental U.S. unless the Congress declares that a state of war exists...
Wherever you use the work violence, we violently object. You are being fundamentally false, for we long for, and seek most earnestly, the most peaceful and easy fundamental and decisive social change possible in this country and this world. Strike violent! Strike violent and then we can discuss what we really mean. Oddly enough, we think that the goal of a socialist society is a very large number of people living very contentedly into advanced old age, condition which in this world now is hardly the case, be it in America or Bangladesh...
...also learned about the alleged plot, but concluded that the report was untrue.) The White House last week flatly denied Newsweek's story. But then, in another deceptive leak, apparently designed to stop the Libya rumor, CIA sources suggested that the West African nation of Mauritania was the object of a somewhat similar-sounding operation. In fact, both congressional committees had objected to a much broader, proposed CIA operation-one that did not involve physical attacks on any national leader-to shore up U.S. interests in the Middle East and North Africa. This hasty scheme reinforced Goldwater...
...scheduled an evening barbecue, dancing and lots of games, including at least two that are not recognized by the International Olympic Committee: a pillow fight on a greased pole laid across a swimming pool, and an English variation on the ancient Greek discus throw, in which the hurled object is a rubber Wellington boot...
...object of Foster's uncertainty is a brown, peanut-size bean called the jojoba (pronounced ho-ho-bah). Nearly a decade ago, researchers found that oil extracted from the beanlike seeds of the jojoba bush, which grows wild in the desert of the Southwestern U.S. and Mexico, could substitute for dwindling supplies of sperm whale...