Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In Army parlance, committed lay members are "soldiers," prayer meetings are "knee drills," and officers and soldiers take a pledge known as the Articles of War. Salva
What to do? Iowa has written off Ronald Reagan, turned away from almost everybody else in Washington. "We're doing it ourselves," insists Governor Terry Branstad. "We've gone beyond grieving," says Richard Krumme, editor of Des Moines's Successful Farming magazine. "There's not one solution, there are 100...
Babbitt's politics are difficult to label, which could be a virtue for a Democrat seeking national office these days. When he called out the National Guard to quell a violent 1983 contract dispute in Arizona's copper industry, Babbitt stirred suspicions among some liberal Democrats that he is a...
The four-day Liberty Weekend requires a litany of superlatives: it will feature the biggest fireworks display in U.S. history, the largest street fair ever in America, the greatest massing of Coast Guard and auxiliary vessels for a single event since World War II, the biggest security mobilization in New...
Strictly speaking, it was not Hands all the way Across America. There were wide gaps in many spots outside the celebrity-studded cities, even though toward the end, organizers relaxed their requirement of a prior pledge in order to swell the ranks. Some $20 million in contributions had been promised...