Word: recruits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Germany let it be known that it will need five years, instead of three, to recruit and train the 500,000 young Germans it has promised for NATO defense...
...both sides together: the familiar rhythm in these flare-ups is violence met with violence and followed by quiet. But this time the rhythm was broken. Small groups of Arab raiders carried the fight deep into Israel. Known as Al Fedayeen (Self-Sacrificers), the sneaker-shod guerrillas are recruited from Palestinian Arab refu gees, and are thus adventurers without a country who know Israel's landscape because it was once their own. Most of them are followers of the former Mufti of Jerusalem, who used to recruit men to fight both the British and the Jews. The Mufti...
Pleadings. What could be said for Sergeant Gallagher, brought up in a decent home in Brooklyn, an Army recruit at 17, and a holder of the Purple Heart? Some of the witnesses thought Gallagher believed in the Communist doctrines; others thought that Gallagher was one who enjoyed lording it over his fellows, seeming important and influential, and that he was soft and pliable, receptive to the meager comforts the Communists could accord him. "I know I'm a sorry son of a bitch," Gallagher told one of the reactionaries one day, "but after all, I know...
...Binghamton. N.Y., who has spent most of his life selling farm products. Before he came to the C.S.S. as a consultant last year, he was secretary and general manager of Cooperative Feed Dealers, Inc., of Binghamton, a commercial agricultural supply distribution organization. Salesman Daniels is expected to recruit a staff of commodity sales specialists from private industry, and to begin a worldwide huckstering program...
...this process, probably the most enlightened punishment in the long history of naval discipline, is wasteful: the Navy would like to make it all unnecessary by learning how to spot in advance the recruit who will go over the hill or sock the skipper. Also, since some bad apples will always get through, it would like to be able to look at each and decide whether the canker of bad conduct can be cut out so that the offender can safely be returned to duty...