Word: trained
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They wear blue berets and brandish baseball bats. They profess fear of genocide and want to train their youth for combat. Some have been involved in campus brawls and dustups at political rallies. Last week they ran a $2,790 newspaper ad in New York showing six young men standing before a building with clubs in hand. In an age of Black Panthers, white vigilantes, and apparently millions of armed and angry individuals, there would already seem to be a surfeit of quasi-military partisans. Threat, however, tends to breed counterthreat. Out of the people traditionally identified with the word...
Pancho Villa's army. "We share very few sentiments with our government," Bishop explains lightly as his men prepare to take the required rifles from a U.S. Army supply train. In 1913, this sort of activity is already anachronistic and doomed to failure. Trying to fulfill the terms of the contract, the bunch get doublecrossed. At the same time, they are caught in the vise of their own simplistic code of honor ("When you side with a man, you stay with him," Bishop says). Mapache betrays them from one side while the bounty hunters attack from another, and they...
...Literature; Ruth A. Ryan, Chemistry; Brenda Sue Baker, Applied Mathematics; Patricia E. Moyer, Chemistry; Kathleen A. Birk, Sanskrit and Indian Studies; Joanna F. Seltzer, Social Studies; Marie I. Montamat, History; Dale Rosen, Social Studies; Ronnie E. Feuerstein, Government; Arden Aibel, Social Relations; Elizabeth S. Gimbel, English; Karen Johnson Train, English; Sarah Campbell Blaffer, Anthropology...
...Developed clinical areas of a new model curriculum to train dentists...
...greatest lessons learned in this war is the absolute necessity of a great reservoir of trained officer material," Goetz said. "It was learned early in the recent officers training camps that it was well nigh impossible task to train an officer properly in the technique of his branch of the service, if, at the same time, it was necessary to teach him the basic principles of a military education...