Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning of an urban guerrilla movement," says Police Intelligence Chief Alejandro Otero. "The Tupamaros are really dangerous-they have capable people and remarkable organization." Tupamaro membership seems to be growing: there are now an estimated 1,000 members, grouped in clandestine five-to seven-man cells. The outfit is run by a core of perhaps 50 to 100 activists, some of whom are believed to have been trained in Cuba. Their intelligence is excellent, which suggests that Tupamaros have deeply infiltrated the government. Uruguay's 12,000-man army recently revealed that the guerrillas had detailed knowledge of military...
...tail and declares the elephant to be a broom, and so on. Depending on which tracks of the record listeners happen to touch upon, the recording group-which is also called Blood, Sweat & Tears-sounds like many different bands. In Smiling Phases, it is a hard-chugging blues-rock outfit with a fillip of modern jazz. In Blues-Part II, it is a modern jazz combo with a streak of contemporary classical dissonance. In Variations on a Theme by Erik Satie, it is a chamber ensemble with pastoral flutes, Bartokian brass and a buzz of electronic sound effects...
...year later was shipped to France in the Signal Corps. On Nov, 10, 1918, in a concrete bunker near near the front, we received a radio message that a ceasefire would begin on the following morning at 11 o'clock. On that morning, two others in our outfit and I walked east along the road toward Metz--and suddenly we say a group of German soldiers...
Harrelson, wearing his usual mod outfit that has made him one of Boston's more flamboyant heroes, told a press conference that it was not economically feasible to leave Boston. Harrelson is involved in business dealings worth three-quarters of a million dollars...
TIME Correspondent David Whiting, who chartered a boat to follow the fleet, reported that there are other forms of recreation on board. Noticing one attractive girl dressed in a black leather outfit, Whiting asked her if there were wives along. "Some," she replied, "are just girl friends." Russian crewmen greeted Whiting with smiles, waves and lots of picture taking. When their officers were not looking, they were happy to exchange their pungent Russian cigarettes for American filters. Mostly, the Russians gave the thumbs-up sign and observed that the fishing was good...