Word: platooning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...muddy blue and white Tel Aviv bus, with its sign, "In military service," halted near Suez city, 85 miles east of Cairo. This was the last stop before the Egyptian-Israeli cease-fire line 13 miles farther south. The ginger-haired civilian driver opened the door alongside a platoon of soldiers waiting by their halftracks at the edge of the road. "This line is closing down," he said happily. "See you in Tel Aviv." The soldiers cheered and clapped their hands. They were getting...
...touch football, Lowell uses a two-platoon system, freely alternating offensive and defensive teams. Most of the players participated on last year's team, and the experience showed in the 19-15 victory over Eliot House last week which insured their second straight touch football championship...
...situation. When Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter phoned Agnew to encourage his old friend, he found himself talking to a weary and saddened man. Reported Carter: "He said that he and his family were under tremendous pressure and that he felt like he was fighting a division with a platoon...
...little band that represents the Liberal Party in Britain's House of Commons has the ragtag and comically mismatched look of Sergeant Bilko's platoon. It includes a 300-lb. spring maker, a Welsh barrister, a teacher from the Scottish highlands and an insurance manager from one of London's blue-blood suburbs. Their leader is an engaging aristocrat, Jeremy Thorpe, 44, an amateur violinist and accomplished mimic whose ancestors were serving in Parliament in the 14th century. Now the band has been joined by David Austick, a bald lay preacher and bookseller, and Clement Freud...
Such a role requires little more of Edward Fox than looking the part, which he does. But a platoon of expert character actors, led by Michel Lonsdale as a Maigret-like master of the hounds, and including such worthies as Eric Porter, Cyril Cusack and Delphine Seyrig, give a human resonance to the film. Author Forsyth, a dealer in stereotypes, never managed that. Best of all, Zinnemann understands what the oldtime action directors knew instinctively: violence and death do not arrive in pompous slow motion but shock us with their suddenness. Yet Zinnemann's handling of violence is tasteful...