Word: serviceman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that bear anti-Iranian vulgarisms. There are numerous varieties of Khomeini dart boards and targets for sharpshooters. One dart board features a caricature of the Ayatullah holding a lighted match to his posterior. In Bedford Park, Ill., Michael McCormack was inspired to make Khomeini dart boards by a diaper serviceman who lined his truck with pictures of the Ayatullah and threw soiled diapers on them. Says McCormack: "We have sold 200,000 to everyone from little old ladies to a kid who wants to peddle them in grammar school...
...rather short. If you had written about the miserable life on Guantanamo Bay, it would have been substantially longer. It might have mentioned such problems as the unavailability of supplies, fresh produce and clothing, and low morale. I don't agree with you totally that the serviceman is reluctant to leave after completion of assignment because of the base services and freshwater sports. My conclusion, after talking to my peers during a year at Gitmo, is that, whatever the discomforts, they would rather do a tour of duty on land than...
...were not for a tightfisted great-aunt, Henry Bloch is convinced he would be just another Kansas City stockbroker today. The rich spinster rebuffed the ex-serviceman's plea in 1946 for a $50,000 loan to launch a large company that would sell office services to small businesses; she only lent him $5,000, Had she been more openhearted, Henry Bloch believes, he and his brother Richard would have started too grandly and quickly gone broke...
Once enlisted, these unfit Marines constitute a new class of military untouchables. The U.S. Court of Military Appeals has ruled that a fraudulently recruited serviceman cannot be court-martialed. Thus the Marines had to drop a case against an enlisted man who was charged with stealing TNT from his unit at the Marine Corps Air Station in Kaneohe, Hawaii, because his recruiter had forged his high school diploma and concealed his juvenile crime record to qualify him for service...
Beckerman, 52, a tailor's son who managed to get to Cambridge after the war on an ex-serviceman's scholarship, enjoys the jousting with the doomsayers. The most ardent conservationists, he scoffs, are elitists with a "trendy" argument that rarely gets more sophisticated than "stopping the earth at once before it's too late." This aristocratic posture, he says, allows the well-heeled to display "exquisite sensibilities, moral virtue and subtle perceptions." What upper-class conservationists are really concerned about, he insists, is saving their "salmon streams and grouse moors." Little fuss is ever made...