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Word: platoons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...later entered the U.S. Naval Academy. At Annapolis he was known as a "tough kid," and was brigade boxing champ. "Reckless? No," says an old classmate. "Wild? Yes. He liked to have fun." After graduation, North joined the Marines and went to Viet Nam, where he led a platoon and engaged in counterinsurgency warfare. He was wounded in combat, later winning a Silver Star and a Purple Heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Fall for a Man of Action | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...sneers the CO as he welcomes Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway (Clint Eastwood) to his latest assignment in a career that stretches from Korea in Tom's distinguished past to Grenada in the near future. But it is the assignment Highway wanted: top kick of a reconnaissance platoon in dire need of the kind of training only he can provide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Top Gunner Heartbreak Ridge | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

After watching McEvoy and Devin battle evenly in preseason tryouts, Cleary decided to platoon the two netminders by having them alternate starts...

Author: By Neil Mooney, | Title: Goalie Tandem Guards the Twines | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

Limousines glide up to the curb on Manhattan's East Side, disgorging a platoon, perhaps even a battalion, of the richest inhabitants of the planet. A seasoned observer estimates that the crowd rushing inside includes at least 100 people worth more than $50 million apiece. The fall art-auction season -- the "shark feed," as Connoisseur Editor Thomas Hoving calls it -- is at gavel pitch, and once again great works, and some not so great, are going, going . . . gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Do I Hear $5 Million? Sold! | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...remembers when the crusade was still only a platoon foray and full of peril. "Three hours I spent there," she says of one lonely outing. "And the kids would be crying and the parents would be crying and I was crying. And at the end of it I remember the young person who was conducting said, 'Well, I'm sure, Mrs. Reagan, you'd like to get up and say a few words.' Well, I was so teary and drained, I thought, 'Good night, how am I ever going to get up and say anything?' I struggled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: It's Morally Wrong | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

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