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Word: scouts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plot had barely begun. Just after midnight, as Manila slept, a contingent of 200 Philippine marines and Scout Rangers stationed themselves above a strategic highway leading to Fort Bonifacio, headquarters of the Philippine army, and suburban Villamor Air Base. Accompanied by two armored personnel carriers, the soldiers were armed with automatic rifles and supplied with mortars. On their left sleeves they bore a strange white patch with the letters RAM-SFP. The first three initials identified the men as members of the Reform the Armed Forces Movement, an organization of Young Turks that was thought to have been disbanded after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Soldier Power | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...stride or a take-command stride. He made his way around a table toward us. He is a bigger and broader man than the common perception. I noticed his uniform, the very bright khaki cloth and the bright red bandana. I don't say it to denigrate the Boy Scouts, but he looked like a senior Boy Scout leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: I Felt I Had to Draw the Line | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...Raiders stave off a third-periodHarvard comeback, and Craig Woodcroft earns hisEagle Scout badge as he tallies with only 21seconds left in OT to give Colgate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For Those Who Were Away... | 11/10/1989 | See Source »

This McNamara thing was tough. He's a scout for the Mariners, I was told. I was puzzled. Mariner? I looked it up in the dictionary, and found the entry "member of a clown act that generally performs on an artificial, indoor baseball field in the Pacific Northwest...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: Locating Long-Lost Athletes Like Larry | 11/8/1989 | See Source »

Ford goes about doing good while doing well. He plays golf all over the world for fun and charity, reminds everybody he was an Eagle Scout and still lives by the code, practices old-fashioned partisan politics in election season and openly relishes the money from the boardroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency The Yen to Stay Onstage | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

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