Word: war
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This marks the second time in recent years that a local organization has attempted to use the initiative petition route to get an ordinance approved for Cambridge. In the fall of 1967 two anti-war groups attempted to have petitions opposing the Vietnam War placed on the ballot...
...anti-war groups failed to have enough valid signatures on its petitions; the other--the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam--got its petition on the ballot. The measure failed to pass, receiving about 39 per cent of the vote in the election
With regard to his future plans Buck said," I've got some writing I want to do." He will probably continue his study of the American Civil War. Buck won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 938 for The Road to Reunion, a study of Reconstruction...
...firm beginnings. Yet Thomas Fleming's chronicle of West Point shows that the academy established in 1802 was "an uneasy compromise between young America's suspicion of a standing army and the nation's obvious need for soldiers skilled in the art and science of war...
...Pewter. Treated warily by Congress, the academy on at least one occasion survived an appropriations ballot by a single vote. Fortunately, the performance of West Point officers during America's various wars kept the school from being abolished. In the War of 1812, while the militia (except for Jackson's defense of New Orleans) was a disgrace to the nation, not a single fort constructed by West Point graduates fell into the hands of the British...