Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think the purpose of the College should be to train people for all matters and varieties of careers, whether in the Federal government, or as President of the United States, or as keeper of a zoo for rarefied animals," Elder said...
Unless someone can find a way to train Smith girls to act like secret service men, this kind of incident is bound to occur now and then. The public, like the Peace Corps itself, should take Ibadan in stride...
Nevertheless, the White Russians did achieve some transient successes, particularly in the Southern theater, where their troops at one time penetrated to within 200 miles of the Communist headquarters at Moscow. Last Train over Rostov Bridge is the story of the part in this campaign played by an American flier, Caotain Marion Aten. The story is true...
...Last Train over Rostov Bridge is far from great history; neither does it qualify as outstanding story-telling. Nevertheless, it is still a striking account of what must have been quite an adventure. The book doesn't tell nearly as much about the Russian revolution as Kennan's Russia and the West. But it goes a lot faster...
...Battle. With the 1st Cavalry, Abrams earned the reputation of being the worst polo player in the U.S. Army, and mastered the day's standard tactics of how to attack an enemy tank: circle it at 15 yds. with five troopers like Indians closing in on a wagon train. Not until Hitler's Panzer divisions blitzkrieged France out of World War II in 1940 did the Army really begin its own tank program. Assigned to the brand-new 4th Armored Division, Abrams rose to command the 37th Battalion with the rank of major, drilled his tankers incessantly...