Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With less than complete success, however, as General Goodpaster learned to his chagrin just two weeks after making that statement. The silver-haired, 35-year veteran of the Army, who came out of retirement in 1977 to become West Point's highly regarded superintendent a year after the cheating...
In a similar spirit, male cadets have formulated an unwritten rule prohibiting serious dating by cadets in the same basic unit, the company, which numbers about 100. The cadets are taught that each company is supposed to function as a whole, just as it would under combat conditions. This was...
They were desperately hungry. When a bag of sugar accidentally burst in the plane's hold, the workers descended on the sugar from all sides, scooping it up into their pockets and even licking it directly off the floor.
"I feel as if I have finally managed to I get out of hot water, but I must expect to dip into even hotter water." So said Premier Masayoshi Ohira last week, after he narrowly won a bruising struggle in the Diet to hang on as leader of Japan'...
Attempts by gypsies to move into decent neighborhoods invariably touch off protests. Most gypsies are confined to ghettos; in Bad Hersfeld, a town of 30,000 near the East German border, 200 gypsies live in old refugee housing that lacks hot water and indoor toilets and is so overrun by...