Word: uniformly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the newcomers are biologists, chemists, biochemists, and even mathematicians and physicists, who were going their own way, quietly planning to go to graduate school and follow some line of research that interested them. Then they looked up and found a man in a uniform standing in front of them. And they didn't really feel like going...
...track of them on their travels, serves as assistant customs broker when they return from abroad, translates their imaginative notes into reasonable expense accounts. In between times, she keeps busy collecting the photographs that some artists work from, finding background symbols (the insignia for Soviet Admiral Gorshkov's uniform, Feb. 23, 1968; the collection of birth control pills, April 7, 1967), or arranging sittings when our artists paint from life, as they sometimes...
Part of the heat being generated against ROTC this fall undoubtedly comes from the war and the gut reaction against a military uniform it has induced. Pell accuses critics of the program of objecting on political rather than academic and administrative grounds, but his own defense of the program is ultimately political too. A supply of well-trained officers is necessary to "the hard-core national interest," he says, and without that supply, "the survival of the nation in a cruel world through the maintenance of adequate deterrent strength will be seriously jeopardized...
...suspicion that Tito was overdramatizing the present Soviet threat for purely domestic reasons. A common enemy is about the only thing that will get Yugoslavia's five ethnic groups to stop their bickering, and for once, they are uncharacteristically quiet. Also, Tito used the emergency to put into uniform some of the student leaders who had been agitating for liberal reforms of Yugoslav society. Still, in the view of the Yugoslav officials, a certain amount of anxiety is justified...
...battered, tacit adversary, known (in the program) as The Schmurz. What is The Schmurz-the awful awareness of one's own death? Is despair The Sound that drives this man into an ever-narrowing corner, where he babbles of flowers on his windowsill and dons his old uniform to fight he knows not what...