Word: platooned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sunday in September 1974, a couple of dozen Soviet painters carried their canvases into a patch of wasteland in Cheremushki, an outlying district of Moscow, and began to set them up on makeshift stands. A small crowd of onlookers gathered, and so, to one side, did a platoon of KGB agents with bulldozers, dump trucks and water cannon. The secret policemen were disguised as civilians doing volunteer work on the abandoned site. As the spectators peered at the paintings and a few Western reporters clicked their cameras, the agents attacked, flinging the canvases into rubbish trucks. Then the bulldozers...
ROCKS ROAD is a quiet residential street running off Route 1, the main road through the small New Hampshire coastal town. On a balmy May afternoon a group of mostly young people sat on the road joking and singing songs and talking politics, until a platoon of National Guardsmen arrived and ordered them off. You see, the other end of the road leads into the Seabrook nuclear power plant, which was then under siege by about 1500 antinuke activists, and the Guardsmen were in no mood to discuss the issue...
Outfielder Chuck Marshall will be sidelined all week with a viral infection, and Billy Blood and Paul Scheper will platoon in right. Marshall should be back for the Dartmouth games...
...weight of these charges wasn't enough to convince either the Pentagon or the White House last year to scrap the AVF. Actually, the three services fell only 7 per cent short of their recruiting goals last year, and platoon sergeants swore to New York Times reporters that the latest privates were as good as any they'd seen. More immediately relevant, though, draft registration would neither replace nor bolster the volunteer army. Carter has explicitly stated he doesn't plan to use peacetime conscription to fill recruitment quotas. And the inductees of a peacetime draft are as little likely...
...began hushed, the candidates wary of endangering the Tehran hostages; it has become deafening. Military marches swell to fill the deepest silences on domestic policy in any recent election. Voters in New Hampshire today and in Massachusetts next week may join the parade, following their favorite Democratic or Republican platoon sergeant to the shores of the Persian Gulf. But they have a chance to stop the music, to demand sane words instead of rhythmic cant...