Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University of Connecticut field hockey team, ranked second in the nation, proved that point yesterday by defeating Harvard, 2-0, on blustery Soldier's Field...
...military planners have been trying for several years now to devise military equipment that can be operated with picture symbols. When and if they succeed, another milestone in nondiscrimination will have been passed--the literacy barrier. Try to ignore the preposterous image of an illiterate soldier poking his or her finger at a pretty, multicolored computer graphic to launch our country's most expensive high-tech armaments. Concentrate instead on the whole new class of desperately poor, conveniently patriotic citizens who could then be pronounced fit for service...
...government would have us believe the military is attracting higher quality volunteers. Since more people are trying to enlist, the government can afford to be choosier. Vice President George Bush told the West Point graduating class on May 23, that numbers were up, standards were up, and the American soldier is once again "the best trained, best fed, best clothed and best equipped in the world...
...black face in a real role affected the whole city as I knew it." It remains for Hollywood to put more real black faces on the nation's screens, and for black actors to keep fighting to show their faces. As the tough sergeant growls in A Soldier's Story, "Not havin' is no excuse for not getting...
During one such raid, a peasant seems in danger of losing his prized cow to a soldier. Fortunately, the beast leads the invader into confusion: "The German on his way through the woods was making discoveries that left him openmouthed: chickens perched on trees, guinea pigs peering from hollow trunks. It was a complete Noah's ark." In The Adventure of a Bather, a respectable signora is horrified to discover that the bottom of her newfangled two-piece bathing suit has come off while she swims near a crowded beach...