Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schlesinger patrolled the halls, buttonholing Senators to argue that such a drastic cut would weaken NATO and undercut negotiations with the Russians for mutual troop reduction in Europe. It would also save the U.S. little money because the forces would only be brought back to America, not demobilized. Similar arguments were raised by General Andrew J. Goodpaster Jr., who is the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and just happened to be in Washington, in telephone calls to key Senators. On the final vote, in which four Senators changed their votes, the Mansfield amendment was defeated...
Hendrix fanatics, after all, are fanatics, and they will loyally troop to see this and any other as yet unreleased Hendrix film. But in the Astor theater, the concert crowds slump lower and lower in their seats. Jimi Plays Berkeley brings no new excitement, no new insight. When the house lights come up, many are actually asleep, and the rest file out silently. No one calls for more...
...until a few years ago shied from portraying divorced women and left politics to the 6 o'clock news, Maude is on her fourth husband and her umpteenth outspokenly liberal cause. She bullies her family and neighbors with the steamroller self-assurance of a Marine sergeant marshaling a troop of Cub Scouts, and when that fails, she invokes the aid of the Deity. "God'll getcha for that," she warns those who cross her. She is a fighter who takes on city hall, featherbedding repairmen and department-store complaint departments. She can deck an adversary with an arch...
...greatest military power in the world, why did these people continue fighting? Who were these Vietnamese, and why did they rebuild bridges with their bare hands and go into battle against an enemy that was vastly superior in the weapons of modern War? Why did did they troop down the Ho Chi Minh trail, year after year, to face almost certain annihilation...
...could do a better job with a troop of Boy Scouts," says Everett Wai-drop, a burly, tattooed carpenter whose sons Donald, 17, and Jerry, 15, were among the victims of Dean CorH's sex-murder orgies. Like other anguished parents, he is bitter about the failure of the Houston police to recognize that something strange had been going on in the Heights section of the city-and to do something about it. Waldrop charges that 13 boys disappeared from the same neighborhood around the same time in early 1971, but that the police were lax in searching...