Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...measures, which took effect last week, include: a ban on wearing civilian clothes on the base or when leaving it; a one-third increase in trainees' duty time, to 24 hours spread over every four days; and the assignment of 100 extra petty officers, making a total of 1,700. The worst troublemakers were transferred to a new disciplinary division led by Chief Warrant Officer Joseph ("Gunner") Cahill. Said the veteran Navyman: "Most of these guys will be good sailors. But they need someone to say, This is the way it is.' We have to bring them...
Chop down some of the Senate's most prominent Democrats? "Of course, we can do it," says Terry Dolan, 28, chairman of a third ultraconservative organization...
...eleven years since the country won independence from Spain, Macias presided over a reign of terror that took the lives of some 50,000 Guineans and drove perhaps 150,000-one-third of the remaining population-into exile...
There are almost as many vows made on the White House lawn as there are blades of grass. But there were almost as many victims of the Holocaust, and when Carter promised to create a living memorial to the Jews killed by the Third Reich, he might as well have carved it in marble...
...their cemetery." Sigmund Strochlitz, a Connecticut automobile dealer, recalled his arrival at Birkenau: "The day I got here I saw the chimneys vomiting black smoke. That day I became an orphan. But I did not know it. The next day I learned my friends were no more. On the third day they told me I was dead...