Word: units
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles. She can equally well be from some honker place like Lake Forest, Ill., or Longeyeland. She got to be called a Valley Girl because of the hot five-minute single record by that name in which Frank Zappa and his maximum brilliant 15-year-old daughter Moon Unit lampooned the San Fernando species and its tribal habits. Valley Girls are by no means mere pubescent versions of the California Girl but exist, in differing regional colorations, from coast to coast. Like Zappa, puts...
...Midnight Clear, a Christmas tale of World War II, makes large virtues of the contrary and the contentious. The members of Knott's Intelligence and Reconnaissance unit are mavericks with high test scores and a low opinion of exposing themselves to hostile fire. Nearly half of them were casualties of a battle in the Saar. The survivors are an antidote to the Dirty Dozen and their sordid spin-offs in film and fiction. The oldest members of the outfit are called Mother and Father; there is a no-obscenity rule, and the favorite pastime is not poker...
Charges against the professor and the Wharton Analysis Center, an energy policy unit headed by Mayer, first arose in October 1980, when former employee Karen Lang filed an unfair firing complaint against the center...
RUDY DEL CARMEN was not among the thousands of Filipinos who watched live television coverage of their president's gala visit this past week to the United States. After having been picked up by a unit of the Philippines' armed forces in August 1981, he was tortured for three days, briefly released and subsequently murdered. During the 17-year rule of President Ferdinand Marcos, hundreds of other Filipinos have met similar fates...
Harvard's defensive unit, always an asset in the past, kept the ball out of the Crimson end for about three quarters of the game. Halfbacks Ellen O'Neill and Toby Carro prowled the Providence passing lanes to break up nearly every Lady Friars attack. The midfielders did their share as well, hustling their way to victory in the ball-control trenches. As a result, Crimson netminder Juliet Lamont had little to do but watch...