Word: uniformed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Something should be done to make federal criminal sentence laws more uniform," Countryman said, adding that strong limitations on judicial discretion are inappropriate...
...inches of snow on Cincinnati forced bypassing that city too. The first stop in the truncated, four-city "citizens' briefing" was Miami, where shoddy advance work produced a turnout of 250 people, including a number of Legionnaires and members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in full uniform. Most of those in the audience were elderly, conservative and already dead set against the canal pacts. Then it was on to St. Louis for a larger antitreaty crowd of 360 people and a dose of ripsnorting right-wing rhetoric. Said Georgia Congressman Larry McDonald: "This treaty is backed...
...when the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps was formed. No longer a mere auxiliary, the Women's Army Corps today numbers 46,000, and there are 170 women in training to become officers at West Point. Now the Army is studying the whole role of women in uniform and trying to decide whether to add more of them. A 133-page special study released by the Pentagon last week concluded that yes, as many as 6,000 more women could be added-an important point in light of projections that the all-volunteer army may have trouble filling...
...Pinochet's strong hand has been strengthened by the plebiscite, much to the disappointment of the left and centrist opposition, which has been pressing for elections. There has been speculation that Pinochet irritated even his fellow junta members by courting personal political popularity (he frequently doffed his military uniform for a business suit while campaigning for the referendum). His triumph last week had its ugly aspects: after the election, bands of rightist youths chanted insults outside the homes of Christian Democratic Party Leaders Frei and Andres Zaldivar, and Zaldivar's home was stoned. More chilling perhaps were Pinochet...
...scarlet dragoon's uniform, he preens before a mirror and loftily mouths stanzas from Byron. Playing the highborn gentleman, though fooling no one, Con charges over the countryside on a thoroughbred mare while reducing his daughter to a barroom slavey. He sneers at the Yankees as vulgar traders while owing them money and enjoying none of their trade...