Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marines did perform well in important respects. The very fact that they were the first into Viet Nam was a tribute to their readiness. They leave I Corps' Popular Forces the best trained in the country. Further, they were in the business of rural pacification long before the term became fashionable in Washington. They mixed Vietnamese Popular Forces and Leathernecks in Combined Action Platoons (CAPs) that not only helped to train local troops and improve security but also provided a model for the Army's Mobile Advisory Teams (MATs...
Rubin appeared first in the Coop, where he signed a few copies of his book, leaving shortly after with a small train of people behind. After wandering in and out of Reading International and the Paperback Booksmith, he headed through the Yard to Lowell Lecture Hall, where he sat quietly with his entourage through the last ten minutes of Daniel Seltzer's Hum 8 lecture. After class, he talked for 40 minutes with the students who gathered around...
...jostling ride to Manhattan's East Side Airlines Terminal, which is located away from almost everything. She waited in a long line for a taxi, then shared it with three strangers (all of whom paid full fare). At Grand Central Station, she learned that her commuter train was indefinitely delayed. An hour's wait?and then she boarded a train. It did not budge. Another 30-minute wait; the passengers were off-loaded and put onto another train. It wheezed out of the station, only to stall several times along the way. Mrs. Loewe had flown from West Germany...
Commuter-one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife; A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides back to shave again...
...about 15 years behind schedule, Loving creaks into the local station. Though it copies many of Cheever's mannerisms, it offers none of his insight or humanity. Yet, from its pretentious title to its artificial fadeout, Loving* poses as a train of revelations...