Word: roped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case. The Army argued that such "minimum duties" do not require shifting a soldier out of combat zones, but that he can be given noncombat assignments in fighting areas. Accordingly, Flores and the others were ordered back to the field, where they "could be used to carry rope, extra water, whatever the company needed." In the end, Flores and two other G.I. privates, Frederick H. Miller and Frank Moore, both 23, were returned to their units but refused to take up the duties assigned. They were confined in the stockade at Camp Eagle to await courts-martial on charges...
...there is no anchor man on Sesame Street. Children wander through stores and around sidewalks, skipping rope and chatting with the hosts. Learning seems almost a byproduct of fun. Why lecture kids when you can wrap the lesson in a joke? Example: the cast passes around a Styrofoam letter J. Each one repeats, "J," until the object reaches Cookie Monster. He booms: "D." The cast choruses: "D?" Monster: "Licious!" And he eats it. Guest teachers drop in all the time. Laugh-ln's Arte Johnson, in his traditional German helmet, discusses height: "Tall people bump their heads...
Unless Cronin takes some more serious steps towards immediate implementation of the rent rollback, or unless the city manager appoints a competent administrator soon, the new rent control law will only continue to serve as a tug of war rope between Cambridge tenants and landlords. The law was meant for more than that...
Chomsky's dust jacket presents a photograph of a beefy American G.I. leading a frail, blindfolded, near-naked Viet Cong out of a helicopter by a rope around the neck. For Chomsky, Indochina is a kind of parable. Viet Nam is the historical misadventure that has exposed the corruption of America-its materialism, its hypocritical democracy -to itself and to the world. If Americans cannot see this and reform, he says, they will destroy themselves and quite possibly everybody else...
...borrowed some of their ideas. In words that Marighella might have used as a model, Lenin urged revolutionaries "to arm themselves with anything they can lay hands on (a rifle, a gun, a bomb, a knife, a stick, a kerosene-drenched rag to set fire with, a rope or a rope ladder, a spade to build barricades, barbed wire, nails against cavalry, etc.). To start training for war immediately, by means of practical operations: killing a spy, blowing up a police station, robbing a bank to provide funds for the uprising, etc." Concluded Lenin: "Let every detachment train for action...