Word: troop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second-rate men who took him for a leader. To Booth, the cause of the South was the cause of gentlemen, and above all the little actor wanted to be recognized as a gentleman-to the very end, when he offered to fight it out with the troop of cavalrymen who surrounded him in a Virginia tobacco barn...
...Standby Reserve (and later to the Retired Reserve), from which they cannot be called back to duty unless there has been a congressional declaration of war or a presidential proclamation of national emergency. Some Guard divisions may be absorbed by the Air Force; Air Guardsmen in tactical and troop carrier squadrons face almost certain chance of being quickly mobilized...
...preliminary to a larger military step-up. There will be at least three new divisions assigned to the Army, bringing authorized strength up to 70,000 men.* From the Navy's huge mothball fleet, landing craft and (possibly) troopships will be activated. The Air Force will gain new troop-carrier wings. The President is unlikely to restore reserve and National Guard units to active duty until and unless he declares a national emergency; but he may ask National Guard commanders to extend the normal period of summer training in order to achieve greater readiness...
...offering an Arab pleasantry when he announced his intent to "liberate" oil-rich Kuwait. He was amazed when alarm bells went off all over the Middle East. At Sheik Abdullah as Salim as Sabah's cry for help, Britain in a matter of hours poured 3,000 crack troops, with their tanks and troop carriers, into Kuwait from bases in Kenya, Aden and Bahrein. A British aircraft carrier and a fleet of warships appeared offshore; another flotilla steamed toward the area from the Mediterranean. After the fiasco at Suez, the British were delighted at the chance to demonstrate that...
...rains have stopped in Angola, and for the first time Portuguese troop carriers have been able to range freely on the dirt roads of the back country. A swath through northern Angola, extending 130 miles south from the Congo frontier, now lies scorched as the Portuguese advance, burning the underbrush to smoke out hidden rebels. The rebels, badly armed, have no answer. Villages lie deserted; livestock, farms and gardens are abandoned as terrified natives flood into the lower Congo. Many know little about the rebellion...