| 单词 | military |
| 例句 | The prosecutor swiveled with a faintly military flourish and executed a tight circle over the courtroom’s waxed floor, his hands against the small of his back neatly. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Every side doorway was guarded by a skeleton in military gear. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Sophia’s husband had gotten out of the military, and he was some sort of salesman. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He had enjoyed his military career, what there was of it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The Army saw to it that William was buried in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He was probably one of the oldest undergraduates at college, but he joined the military after high school in Iran and didn't move to Baton Rouge until his early twenties. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z He was a very old man when I knew him, but as a young lieutenant just out of military academy he had been assigned to General Miles and he served in the Chief Joseph campaign. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But you’d be surprised how quickly armed military personnel and pepper spray shut down the well-meaning protests of liberals in small, leafy towns. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z He sat down behind his desk again and resolved to embark upon a mature and systematic evaluation of the entire military situation. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Like any good military mind, I decided that a direct assault was the wrong move. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Just like him, she works for the military. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Most people in America, including those in the military, had thought the Canal would be easy for the Marines to take. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Marina’s aviation regiments weren’t organized by the military. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z At the age of twenty-one, he was sent to JBLM, a joint military base south of Tacoma. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Yule was a subdued affair, for the King and his eldest son were away on a military campaign far in the south, and because of the harsh weather the hunting season ended earlier than usual. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The case involved Indiana citizens convicted by a military tribunal of conspiring to aid the Confederacy during the war. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z In short, with mercenaries the greatest danger is their reluctance to fight; with auxiliaries, their military virtue. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z In political organization, Polynesian islands ranged from landscapes divided into independent tribal or village units, up to multi-island proto-empires that devoted standing military establishments to invasions of other islands and wars of conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Not only were they eminently respectable, these were figures who held real influence in British life: politicians, diplomats, military men, clergy. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z In Fjerda women didn’t talk this way, didn’t speak of military or strategic matters. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “The Marines are ferrying him home on a military transport, after a quick stop at Shake Shack for something called a Shack Stack and a concrete.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z A massive orchestra—the Berlin Philharmonic merged with the national orchestra and supplemented by half a dozen military bands-—launched into Wagner’s Huldigungsmarsch, the March of Homage. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Shouts and obscenities poured out of the windows of B barracks, a two story shingled building that had the unmistakable appearance of military architecture circa 1945. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But he was a military veteran, so his survivors were entitled to receive an American flag upon his death. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It was Pumpkin, his military tunic off hanging on the fence. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Among Leonardo’s many interests and accomplishments—in painting, sculpture, anatomy, geology, natural history, military and civil engineering—he had a great passion: to devise and fabricate a machine that could fly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z After six months of military occupation in Coalwood, Mr. Carter was forced to sign a contract with the union and, soon afterward, sold Coalwood in disgust. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was a very overwhelming place in that uneasy peace-time when military and civil pilots took it in turns to use the runway, but Maddie was determined, and followed the signs to the flying club. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z We were in the West Coast epicenter of the military as they shipped men and equipment across the Pacific to Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z My grandfather served in the military, as an infantryman in the US Army. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z For generations thereafter, the Arabs recounted the legend of a boy who had turned himself into the wind, almost destroying a military camp, in defiance of the most powerful chief in the desert. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, it’s a military town all right,” Lillian said to her husband. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither did I get to witness a military coup in which forces sympathetic to the colonel arrived late at night to assassinate my next-door neighbor. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to be part of no military club. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z This one dated back to the previous fall, when the AEC and the Pentagon had worked out the military program for both weapons laboratories. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I intended to make good on the promises I’d made to the military spouses I’d met while campaigning—to help share their stories and find ways to support them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, it had very few military men with the right skills—“possibly three or at most four persons,” Elizebeth later wrote. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Without consulting her husband, she arranged for her son to be shipped off to a military prep school—the first of several failed attempts to “normalize” the boy. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Reverend Hunt says he is a soldier, an officer—not a ship’s captain but a captain in the English military. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z On the floor there was a jumble of satin shoes, debutante’s handbags, belts studded with fake stones, suspenders, and even the shining sword of a military cadet. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was such a rapid, methodical, and brutal action that it was like a military operation. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z And that same year, Milton Stephanides, tired of military life, left the Navy and returned home to pursue an old dream. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Attempted Sabotage of Poitou River Bridge on Tours-Poitiers Road, with intention of stopping German military bus carrying 24 French and Allied prisoners—Wed. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z In June 1946, Jack and six hundred other survivors boarded a U.S. military troop ship to cross the Atlantic. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Waving and blowing kisses to loved ones as the military trains pulled out of the station, the black soldiers were at last on their way to fight for freedom. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The sheds look more like a military barracks than a barn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z After Yardley’s sellout, the American military brass worried a great deal about the loyalty of their code breakers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Instead, he served two years moving between different military bases. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It was clear to me that a military victory was a distant if not impossible dream. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Its guiding principle, according to the constitution, is “military first.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z There were eighteen military bunk beds inside for thirty-six men. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Japan’s military had taken such a beating by this point, the country was nearly defenseless against American air raids. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Built-in speakers, too, plus buttons I could push for rhythms like jazz beats and military and drums. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z But that’s not what the researchers discovered Many policy analysts write as if the obvious way to deal with armies that commit human rights violations is to invade them with our vastly superior military forces. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z They were lectured in military engineering and taught to read maps. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z But he was still recovering from the trauma of the war as well as some serious traumas that preceded his military experience. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Dingiswayo developed a superior centralized military organization by drafting young men from all villages and grouping them into regiments by age rather than by their village. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They literally stole Athena, so she could no longer be the symbol of Greek military power. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And suddenly, I realize what the military will think my biggest weakness is. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z But he has seen the military results of maneuvering by armchair commanders Halleck and Stanton, and he insists that the Army cannot be commanded from Washington, that he cannot accept command without a free hand. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He ordered Tallmadge to set up a spy ring that would provide such important secrets as the size and location of British military supplies and “the health and spirits of the army, navy and City.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z We spend a couple of hours quizzing each other on military terms. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It was a bitter reminder that everything King had taught him had been wiped out by his time in the military. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z For once, a military intelligence report proved accurate. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z But that attitude severely limits the military options of tribes, compared with state societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “To walk my post in a military manner, keep always alert, and observing everything that takes place within sight or hearing. To spread the alarm in case of fire or disorder.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Having been upbraided by Cockcroft for the Rad Tab’s publication of atomic research in 1940, Ernest soon accommodated himself to the demands of military secrecy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This is a puzzle, finally solved by the realization that they foresee your military future, fighting for them. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Same-color khaki outfits were what the military wore, and so a dress distinction had to be made. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Sure, he liked military history, weapons, and biplanes, but he also loved old films, especially romantic comedies from the 1940s and ’50s. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “What are the primary components of a good military campaign?” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “You don’t have to say ridiculous things twice, Holling. Once is more than enough” “Why is military school ridiculous?” asked my sister. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Instead of konohiki carrying out every aspect of administration for a Hawaiian district, state governments have several separate departments, each with its own hierarchy, to handle water management, taxes, military draft, and so on. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Ida ran the house with military efficiency, and Winnie and I took our orders willingly; I often ran out to do errands at her command. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A military presence ensured that order was maintained and that no one could leave, though everyone was well fed and received proper medical treatment. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z His family had hoped the military would help control his rage and teach him some discipline and respect for authority. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The military tribunal would be composed of seven generals to serve as the judges, with President Roosevelt presiding over the proceedings. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z He was now “in country,” military slang for serving in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He sometimes fell asleep before he got drunk; sometimes spent whole days looking at the river and the sky; and more and more he relinquished the military habits of cleanliness in his shack. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He was tall and elegant, with chocolate-colored skin and bleached-blond hair shaved military style. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z No name given, no military service or rank mentioned—she introduced herself to Penn as a wireless operator. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z In a few minutes we were standing in front of the J-3 as Dad explained my duties with military precision. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Adam could see the stem and military face of his father as he forced his sons through drill and made them carry heavy packs to develop their shoulders. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The enemy, he says, is "confined to a comparatively small area," and the military will prevent them from escaping. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z But this, too, entailed military weakness, and since the privations it inflicted were obviously unnecessary, it made opposition inevitable. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z They rose to power after the death of Alexander the Great brilliant military leader who had established an empire that extended eastward from Greece to India. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z A military biohazard operation was about to go down in a suburb of Washington, and he sure as hell didn’t want the Post to find out about it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I was really relieved and grateful that President Eisenhower had sent those soldiers to protect us, because how much trouble must we be in, if we needed that much military power? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He’d managed to drive back in an old American military jeep that the “big guy” let him take. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Besides, the traditional family career track is military, so that’s about it, isn’t it?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Overhead, she could see military planes zooming past, heading north and east. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Congress and the public were relieved by the relatively small size of the military commitment. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He had attended military school in Japan until the age of seventeen, and part of him never got over that. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z But not military code, not Intelligence or Resistance code—just feminine code. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Gold cuff finks on the sleeves of his black military tuxedo coat have the Colorado coat of arms engraved on them. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z It looked like a heavily fortified military base. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z But as soon as she left and took a job with first the Navy and then the Coast Guard, military officials suspected her and her husband of leaking secrets to each other. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He’d held many divisive meetings with his advisors about the political and military situation in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “By the end of the war, I was more or less known as a military cipher expert,” she wrote, “but I was better known as the wife of my husband.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The letter C identified a cargo plane like the Douglas C-47 Skytrain, built to transport military goods and troops and, eventually, commercial passengers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In North America this kind of warfare was fueled by the desire to seek not just a military victory but also the complete annihilation of Indigenous peoples. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Flags waved and film cameras rolled, and a military band played as the pilots stepped out of the plane and began walking down a stairway onto a red carpet. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z And although the women of Marina’s regiments were trained as strictly as any soldiers, they didn’t receive military status until their training was complete. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It could have been the echoes of the jungle and nothing more, but Taylor was the daughter of a military man, and her senses were sharp. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Not only did Inka infantrymen have to overcome their initial stupefaction, their leaders had to reinvent their military tactics while in the midst of an invasion. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Now that police departments were suddenly flush with cash and military equipment earmarked for the drug war, they needed to make use of their new resources. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I knew that I would risk running into my former military friends, who would kill me if I told them I wasn’t part of the war anymore. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Efficiency, even military efficiency, is no longer needed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In June, both the House and Senate approved bills to block all funds for U.S. military activities in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Well, what a good wingman you are, Scoob-a-doob! I mean that in the military sense, by the way. Not the way young folks these days use it.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Just as military school had slowly grown on me, so had academic life. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The station had become a kind of military base. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z And even if you disregard that part of it, there was strong evidence that the death penalty should not be imposed because of Herbert's trauma, military service, and childhood difficulties. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Keegan is among the most esteemed military historians who ever lived, and A History of Warfare was a critically acclaimed bestseller. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Thanks to his military training, Powell knows the value of reconnaissance. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Because this note is from a military doctor. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z After graduating from Oklahoma State University as the Flying Aggies' top female pilot, Wally had gotten a job teaching military men how to fly. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z He won over all their followers who were noblemen, making them his own noblemen and giving them huge subsidies; and he honoured them, according to their rank, with military commands and civil appointments. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Hatred of Jews was entrenched in all levels of the tsarist government, and though Jews also served in the military, promotion was dependent upon conversion. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Besides, as Cyrus became more military, his wife learned the only technique through which a soldier can survive. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Plaques decorated the wood-paneled walls, along with a framed display of military medals and ribbons. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Even military leaders were reporting that obesity was one of the most common disqualifiers for service. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Despite what Roosevelt may have wanted, the responsibility of bringing justice for the crime fell on Rondon since he was the highest-ranking Brazilian military officer. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The second fellow, whose name was Makhanda, stood out because of his military demeanor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Johnson lit into the military men, dropping the f-bomb, Cooper noted, “more freely than a marine in boot camp.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z As usual in times of military crisis, the public rallied around the president. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Like me, they appeared to be impressed by the imposing sight of military power. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After multiple psychiatric evaluations and treatments, Joe was discharged for an inability to adjust emotionally to military life. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “We have relied on South Vietnam to carry the brunt. Now we would be responsible for satisfactory military outcome.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z To make sure that workers at state farms do not shortchange the military, the army stations soldiers at all three thousand of them throughout the harvest season. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, there is evidence that she encouraged Mark Antony’s military ambition and never lost sight of his political strength and his ultimate goals. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z He ordered the German military to prepare an all-out invasion of Poland. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky to the west was mostly clear, except for a few wispy clouds and the long foamy contrail from a big military jet. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z They marched in military formation through minute cracks around the baseboards and windows and headed straight for the sink. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z In early November, the top commanders of the U.S. military gathered outside the Oval Office in the White House. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I'm in front of a building at the heart of Batalla, the military sector of Los Angeles. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z He found a desk and a phone with a direct line to the American military headquarters in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Any concession to British economic and military power, no matter how strategically astute, seemed a betrayal of the very independence won in the Revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The hospital employed top-notch military surgeons and offered excellent rehabilitation services, geared to handle the most devastating of battlefield injuries. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He tried to instill some military training in me, but always sweetened it with candy. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This arises from the fact that her ancient military practices were not good, and that there has existed nobody capable of inventing new ones. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The Aztecs required tribute in the form of military service, physical labor, crops, and manufactured products. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Those serving in the military were given rations according to a strict order of rank and importance. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He's seldom home anymore, since he also works at the MützenFabrik, a factory that makes stiff military hats, the kind with the visor in front. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z It was a universal law in military families that mothers could not maintain the strict discipline enforced by fathers to whom discipline was a religion and a way of life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In the beginning, Joe spent his time in prison much as he’d spent it in the military: in the hole for insubordination and fighting. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Maybe I could manage this military school thing. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z All true, but the military, which was still recovering from Yardley’s bombshell, did not want to see such things in print. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In 1952, the year Perry completed his military service, the old man was in the midst of plans meant to end his travels forever. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z In the years after Rivonia, the ANC’s External Mission, formerly responsible for fundraising, diplomacy, and establishing a military training program, took up the reins of the organization as a whole. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z From now on, wherever he went, he’d be closely trailed by a military aide carrying a forty-five-pound briefcase containing launch authentication codes and sophisticated communications devices, often referred to as the nuclear football. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z At most other universities, there wouldn’t be so many student soldiers, but at Drake, almost all of us are well on our way to career assignments in the Republic’s military. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Not one single Congolese doctor or military officer, nothing, for the Belgians don’t allow them to get an education. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And the example just cited should suffice, for the Kingdom of France would be invincible if Charles’s military institutions had been developed or preserved. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z “I heard you were a military family. Word travels around fast in this neighborhood. So you, Mr. Bull, are a Marine officer.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Standing on her feet all day in the sweltering laundry was an opportunity if the tumbled military uniforms bought new school clothes, if each sock made a down payment on her children’s college educations. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She wished success for the young aviators and told them she hoped they’d earn the honorable name of “Guards” for their regiment—a special title awarded to elite military units. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Modern computing was in its infancy, still used only by corporations and the military, or other huge government operations. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The commander of the troops spoke a few words, and our military protectors fell into formation and marched away. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The moral aspects of the military blockade as a weapon in times of peace had been bothering me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “No, I think you should join the military. Like I did.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The royals were too well-protected to be of use to her, but not far away she saw another whirl of activity around a group in military dress. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Later, though, when Hunter added solid military intelligence about British units, Washington began to trust him. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I was looking through some shots of my father during his military service. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet he was as deliberate about setting up his motel room as a military ritual. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Voices came from the waterfront, military voices shouting orders. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z One year, when my parents learned from my uncles in the military that my tribe was under threat, we packed up and moved to Burundi. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Only the Standard had a critical editorial, calling on the new military government to quickly implement a return to democracy plan. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Now that I had a chance to think about it, the Whitechapel Club’s decorations struck me as ostentatious and overdone as the false medals of a military imposter. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Suddenly, up above, a military helicopter roars past at a low altitude. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The same pattern holds true for military organization. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Tens of thousands of Hitler Youth, storm troopers, and helmeted military guards lined his route from the Brandenburg Gate through the Tiergarten and out to the Reichssportfeld. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z With him rested the basic responsibility for his father’s military appearance. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z American soldiers receive an allowance for their uniforms, and it is now possible for American military women to purchase approved boots made to fit their feet. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “It is what they think they want. But how can I blame them? Look what this military tyrant is doing to our country.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Back in Congo, police officers and military officers were basically the same—and they came when there was war. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He then became a top advisor at the military’s new joint intelligence agency in 1949. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Living by the perimeter, they got by without the strict military scrutiny she was used to. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Most were top secret cables and reports on Vietnam from the U.S. military, the CIA, and other agencies. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The feeling must be somewhat similar in the military among troops about to be dispatched to faraway trouble spots: Some of us are going to get hurt. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Adams had always supported military preparations more as a diplomatic maneuver to impress the French government of American resolve. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z All rulers of all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers, but they could not afford to encourage any illusion that tended to impair military efficiency. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Every single hair on my neck stands in military style. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Apparently Adolf Hitler has a vendetta against tobacco, finds it filthy and disgusting, and his military police and their assistants are not meant to smoke at work. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I forgot that I asked Madoc to teach me swordplay and strategy, but after dinner he gives me a stack of military history books from his personal library. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “We’re not interested in a military coup, General,” the head of Embassy intelligence replied in studied Spanish. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Scholars have long acknowledged such borrowings as moccasins, maize, and military tactics—the Indian-style guerrilla skirmishes with which the rebellious colonists bedeviled British soldiers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “We certainly will not be unmindful of the possibilities of discoveries of military value in the energy range above one hundred million volts.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They thought they would be people like themselves, men doing their military duty, anxious to return to their wives and children, and appreciative of any hospitality and kindness. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z When Zeitoun and the others entered the main room of the station, immediately fifty pairs of eyes, those of soldiers and police officers and military personnel, were upon them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z And they assured those of us who hadn’t been in the service that the Academy was “nothing like” a real military boot camp. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I am a military man and I know a gun when I hear one! Turn back!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Along the back wall stood a display of banners and wooden poles studded with bronze medals—military symbols, Percy guessed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z JonJon hadn’t written very frequently at first: it seems he started shortly after returning from his military service, but there are weeks—and sometimes months—between the first handful of entries. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z But the military forbade them from serving with whites, deeming them mentally deficient for the rigors of combat. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Throughout Europe, industrial capitalism, coupled with military force on a frightening scale, loomed ominously. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z So, while the Nazis did increase the number of new jobs by building and repairing roads, railways, and houses as well as building up their military, they also took employment away from other Germans. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z She wore green Army slacks with a black stripe down the leg, a green Army shirt, and in the cold before sunrise she put on a black military sweater. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Capitol reinforced these and set about making the mountain their new military base. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Garfield learned about military leadership through experience and observation of the professional soldiers around him. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z When the military man left for a year, the whole family relaxed in a collective, yet unvoiced sigh. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Oakland Police Department has access to stuff I never knew existed. They claim that they get a lot of it from the federal government. Surplus from all our country’s military spending or something.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Clarkebury functioned more like a military school than a teacher training college. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He taught surveying, navigation, cartography and military engineering. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Blue Team’s commanders were also given a tool called Effects-Based Operations, which directed them to think beyond the conventional military method of targeting and destroying an adversary’s military assets. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z At first, the FLN believed they could defeat the French militarily, Dr. Mustafa said, then realized that a pure military victory was impossible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Weird thing about military schools: the kids go absolutely nuts when there’s a special event and they get to be out of uniform. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z It’s not just one truck, but a whole bunch of military vehicles. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z But his hair is curly on top, and her hair is supershort—almost like Uncle Paul’s military haircut. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I had new clothes, made by tailors in the camp who ripped apart military uniforms at the seams and refashioned them into civilian clothes. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The Inka’s sister-wives accompanied him on military forays, along with a few hundred or thousand of his subordinate wives. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Yossarian followed the small fishing boats and military launches plying back and forth far out and found them unreal; it did not seem true that there were full-sized men aboard, going somewhere every time. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Germany formed an alliance with Japan, which had a powerful military of its own, and dreams of building an empire in Asia. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z "Poor boy. You truly believed you could break out of a military stronghold, didn't you?" Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I had a communication from Henry Fazzie, one of the MK cadres who had undergone military training in Ethiopia and been arrested while attempting to return to South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The book included items such as the mission statement of the school, the honor code, the cadet resolution, and all of the military and cadet ranks. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z With thousands of soldiers being sent to Vietnam, there were not enough volunteers for the military to meet troop needs. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z But the military also recognized the potential for disease to make their work easier. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Early in 1942, a young Soviet physicist named Georgi Flerov sat in the library of a military base in southwestern Russia, flipping through a tall stack of physics journals from the United States. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “My grandfather was a military officer, Colonel. A major. He died for the Gray at Antietam.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a big moustache and looked very military. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z He saw tents there, and military vehicles, and a dozen or so police officers and soldiers. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He’s attacked the Republic’s military assets on his own, slowed down shipments to the warfront, and destroyed our warfront-bound airships and fighter jets. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumors circulated, photographs faked. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Though this was really an emergency proposal dictated by the military crisis, and was ultimately rejected by the planter class in South Carolina and Georgia, its very suggestion seemed prophetic. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It is military conversation really, Like you might have in the mess of a crack cavalry regiment: tactics, small arms, maintenance, betting, famous hunts, wine, women and song. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But they also were aware that deploying a weapon of such enormous power would not be a military action; the Super’s value would be strictly “psychological,” General Bradley declared. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z However, it was not the proclamation of a military victory this time, but merely an announcement from the Ministry of Plenty. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z A lone medic truck pulls up behind the military jeeps. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The congresses authorized me to go ahead and form a new military organization, separate from the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The escalation of military force was quite dramatic in cities throughout the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The majority of the women who found their way to the military laundry room had left behind jobs as domestic servants or as stemmers in the tobacco factories. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He was careful not to use scary military terms such as virus amplification, lethal chain of transmission, crash and bleed, or major pucker factor. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was never said, but the model behind this process was military. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Or was it more in keeping with military strategy? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was big enough for a low military surplus bunk, a toilet, a sink, and a nightstand. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He also found a rucksack and a dark brown winter coat, which was military in style and much warmer than any coat he had ever worn. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z People think this is just military drill, judo, karate, things like that—which is part of the F.O.I. training, but only one part. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But we have had enough of charm and polish; this commander who doesn’t even walk like a military man is the one who will, I believe, restore the Union... Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z They found a military cache that left them openmouthed, for they had never seen such perfect instruments of death. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z This way they could stay longer, as military intervention would be delayed. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z At the rear was a rather ragtag military band that was led by a man called Sudani. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Others claimed Los Alamos was home for pregnant military personnel—or possibly a nudist colony. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time we reach one of Drake’s outer streets and I climb into the backseat of our waiting military jeep, Metias can barely contain his anger. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z His military aide, Navy Captain John H. Morse Jr., seconded his opinion: “You may detect some feeling that clean weapon potentialities have been over-stated and over-simplified recently,” he wrote Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “What kind of terrorist takes out a school when school isn’t even in session? It’s not like we’re some kind of major military target or a church or—” Tad went completely still. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Janey Hart discussed how 100 years earlier, men served as hospital attendants and women were thought of as too weak to withstand the horrors of military hospitals. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z A man with an eye for the good ground, already badly wounded and not long to live, weary of stupidity and politics and bloody military greed. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked like a cross between a Russian military blouse and a carpenter’s apron, but it was warm, roomy and, I thought, handsome. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Van Riper thought to himself, I’ve never seen this sort of pandemonium except in a military command post in war—we can learn something from this. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z When the young women of the 122nd Air Group were given winter uniforms, of course once again it was standard military issue meant for men. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z My cloak knot is indeed a Canto knot, a sturdy knot that military officials like to use. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I just know that it rubbed me in a weird way, because ROTC, especially to people like my dad, was the first step to the military, and ultimately into law enforcement. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The report discussed three possible military applications for fissionable uranium: dropping radioactive materials over enemy territory; generating power for submarines and other oceangoing vessels; and development of a bomb based on U-235. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Turning to the military leaders, he asked, “If we give Westmoreland all he asks for, what are our chances?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z All of us wanted to believe the bravery of our soldiers could somehow defeat the mighty German military with all its planes and tanks. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z His library on the second floor of his house in Virginia is lined with rows upon rows of works on complexity theory and military strategy. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z A teacher once reported you for sneaking into a restricted area of the library, looking for old military texts. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z At that moment, the President was speaking on the phone with the head of the uprising, who was offering him a military plane to leave the country with his family. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Conveniently, just at this time the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Christina, invited Galileo to instruct her teenage son Cosimo in the use of Galileo’s military compass and tutor him in mathematics generally. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z All during the summer, all across America, the highways filled up with the migrating families of the American military. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And she kept getting calls from top govern- ment and military officials in Washington asking about hotel rooms in the area. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Words had to be added for new weapons, military terms, and situations of war. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s when the military takes over,” he says. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The main point was that the American military was not hurting the enemy nearly enough to weaken their commitment to eventual victory. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Only the military tailor never lifted his eyes, but went on with his stitching. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “They’re the largest military force the government has now, and, thanks to dear old Dad, the most organized.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z But their leadership voted not to challenge Roosevelt’s order allowing the government to “exclude” people—namely, Nikkei—from “military areas”—namely, the West Coast, where most of the Nikkei lived. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Immediate reasons for Pizarro’s success included military technology based on guns, steel weapons, and horses; infectious diseases endemic in Eurasia; European maritime technology; the centralized political organization of European states; and writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And with the rewards so substantial, with the hostile military establishments beholden to each other in some ghastly mutual embrace, the world discovers itself drifting toward the ultimate undoing of the human enterprise. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z After Poland fell in 1939, Nazi leaders planned their next military campaign over the winter. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z But the sharp-eyed Tallmadge knew from the way that André paced across the floor that he had to be a military officer. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They were wearing mismatched police and military uniforms. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Out on the streets, two big gray military trucks pulled up, and Jews from our apartment building and all the buildings around us were herded into them by German soldiers. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “They asked me to confirm people’s professions. They asked me to list the teachers, lawyers, and military who lived nearby.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It would be a daunting task for a veteran general much less a military novice. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a heavy breather on account of his asthma, which was why he didn’t fight in the war even though he had a military flattop haircut that looked like an airport for paper airplanes. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Europeans won military victories in New England, historians say, partly because they were divided among themselves. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We tried to ignore them, but as we turned a corner to continue home, a group of armed men, half in civilian and half in military clothing, ran toward us, firing into the crowd. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The military in Guatemala at that time became too powerful, and the people revolted. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The sense of the meeting ran like this: military threat or no, if we are going to stop this agent, we’ve got to throw everything at it that we’ve got. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the roadless North Slope had fewer wolves than it did before the gussaks erected their military bases and brought airplanes, snowmobiles, electricity, and jeeps to the Arctic. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They were given the special title “Guards”—the mark of an elite military unit. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The boys, who normally sported their high school letter sweaters, were dressed in smart brown military uniforms and jaunty hats. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The military report showed the bombing was a “great success,” hitting not only primary targets, but more secondary targets than expected. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z If they resisted, they were to be conquered by European military action. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The most direct contribution of plant and animal domestication to wars of conquest was from Eurasia’s horses, whose military role made them the jeeps and Sherman tanks of ancient warfare on that continent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Get out of your uniform,” he said, “and get into civilian clothes. They are beating up people who are in military uniform.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z By the mid-1980s, nearly 20 percent of the people in jails and prisons in the United States had served in the military. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z There is at least one male military nurse to protect the secretary, along with Seward’s wife and three of his children. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He watched as three military trucks drove past him to the front of the clinic and stopped abruptly, kicking up a huge cloud of dust. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Tet was a military disaster for the Communists. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z No one's ever gotten this—well, except for some kid a few years ago who the military made a goddy fuss over. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Americans went through the pockets of the dead Vietnamese, searching for papers, photographs, maps: anything that might provide information to military intelligence. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z She waited until the airports were reopened, the Post and Telegraphs up again, the military governors appointed to the regions. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z After the two weeks, we appeared for our preparatory examination on December 19 at the Drill Hall in Johannesburg, a military structure not normally used as a court of justice. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Grim reminders of it were strewn along the road: burned carcasses of old Soviet tanks, overturned military trucks gone to rust, a crushed Russian jeep that had plunged over the mountainside. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z You had to be in the middle of nowhere when you were building and testing rocket boosters—not just for the space shuttle, but for military missiles, too. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z At a military tattoo perhaps, or at some old piece of show-ground pageantry, you may have seen a cavalry charge. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z That was all he said; then he smiled and walked away, asking the other soldiers to strip us of our military equipment. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The people here can serve in the US military but can’t vote for president. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Like mice, military censors had nibbled at Milton’s letters before Desdemona got to digest them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Today, it is hard for us to grasp the enormous numerical odds against which the Spaniards’ military equipment prevailed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There were few who did not hail him as a true military genius for his important discovery. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z A chain of Israeli military tanks lumbered up the road. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Then a young man no older than twenty, dressed in a military uniform, looked my way and said a soft hello. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The face reflected there was of a slightly military cast with a moustache. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z He was a civilian, but his posture was military. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The GAC spent the morning probing the views of the military. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But U.S. military planners had to think ahead. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Hitler’s followers sang Nazi songs as they marched straight-legged, goose-stepping in military style. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z We landed at a commercial airport because of some kind of disturbance at the military facilities. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They had flown from a secret airfield in Canada to a rendezvous somewhere in Siberia, and had conferred with members of the Eurasian General Staff, to whom they had betrayed important military secrets. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z If the birds of the North are born with a migratory instinct fused into the albumen of eggs, then the military families of America develop the same instinct out of necessity. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As I’ve said before, I grew up knowing little about the military. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Allied troops staged at Camp Patrick Henry, five miles up the military highway, then were delivered by train to the pier. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But the white men sitting up on the stage were all dressed alike, in white uniforms with belts, swords, shoulder fringe, and white flat-topped military hats. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And so, beginning in 1932, military training was built into the secondary education curriculum in the USSR. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I had last seen him in September of 1961 when he was leaving the country for military training. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They produced two identical solutions: The letter, addressed to General Gage, contained reports on Washington’s military plans and on the strength of the Continental Army. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In effect, Jay’s Treaty was a repudiation of the Franco-American alliance of 1778, which had been so instrumental in gaining French military assistance for the winning of the American Revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But home in this instance is not a restful place; it’s more like what is known in the military as a “situation.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We want all black men to be exempt from military service. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z The instincts of the military wife were beginning to assert themselves, the old efficiency of stealing away from temporary homes and entering the bloodstream of highways heading to new quarters. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Russian was given two separate code names inside the Agency: IRONBARK, for the military information he provided, and CHICKADEE, for his political espionage. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z About twenty thousand American soldiers were stationed in South Vietnam, arming and training the military. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In the 1940s, Arthur had fought with the Palmach, the military wing of the Jewish National Movement in Palestine. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Agnew and Hamilton knew from their years practicing military surgery that the human body often encases a bullet in a cyst, or sac, making it harmless. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Interspersed among the lively, whispery strings are little military outbursts from the horns. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z If he wasn’t fit for a military career, what was he good for? The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Word may have leaked out to the w'hole military combine of the nation and, for that matter, the world.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He talked to her about military history, the question of strategy and tactics in past eras. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z It’s one of the all-time great military acronyms, and it stands for Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z His boots had no military markings and could pass as civilian. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The U.S. military had, in fact, broken many of the key Japanese codes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z What I saw of military life left me humbled. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I saw military washerwomen dressed in fine silk waistcoats for men, brocaded with water-stains and grime. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z By cracking your enemy’s codes and ciphers, you could learn their military secrets. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “The whole military situation has been going to hell ever since we captured Paris. I knew it would happen.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Maybe it’s an old military base,” Mark offered. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z "That's very kind, Mrs. Taylor”—Ewan's excuse was seamless—"but my mother's birthday dinners run to military precision. If she suspects me of dawdling, it'll be the execution squad at dawn.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z In the far north, where food supplies are historically lean and farmers are regarded as politically hostile, the military takes a quarter of total grain production, Kwon said. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z His house and farm he organized on a military basis. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The second woman to break the sound barrier was one of Cochran's WASPs, Jean Hixson, who flew a Delta Dagger military jet in 1958, which was against regulations. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z “Fort Scott,” Mr. Hickock said, naming a Kansas town with a military history. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon, news bulletins announced that military defenses had been destroyed. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The military band was playing and the crowd was massed on the far side of the square where the fireworks specialist and his son were trying to send up fire balloons. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Metias did pick me once—once—for a mission last year, when all third-year Drake students had to shadow an assigned military branch. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The Moton school office put war stamps on sale, each purchase a small offset against the gargantuan cost of the military production. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I had come looking for a parade, for a military review of champions marching in ranks. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z At first glance, he appeared to be wearing military night-vision goggles. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Perhaps there was something to this physical fitness curriculum the military recommended. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I disagreed, arguing that a Halloween party for local kids and military families who’d never seen the White House before was a perfectly appropriate use for a tiny slice of the Social Office’s entertaining budget. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Grandmother had told him there would be a military burial. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Within military circles, however, her unit received a measure of praise, and even some awards. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z A black man on a horse, wearing a military uniform—white pants, white gloves, navy jacket, and a blue, white, and red sash. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He will not be permitted to enlist in the military, or possess a firearm, or obtain a federal security clearance. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He’d been in the army for nineteen months and had less than five months of service left to fulfill his two-year military commitment. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Many settlers on the borders of Indigenous territories believed that the newly created, professional US military might not support their interests. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Although Soviet women had flown as military bomber pilots in World War II, none of the women chosen for the Soviet space program were military pilots. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z “Do you know what I like about military barbers? You guys are such high class people. I mean it. Sincerely, I do. The absolute cream of military personnel. Handsome, aristocratic, urbane, without being affected.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z More tightly organized and military minded than Tiwanaku, the rulers of Wari stamped out cookie-cutter fortresses and stationed them all along their borders. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Writing about how corrupt the civilian government was, as if they think the military will not be corrupt. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z There he was put on trial before a military court, which found him guilty. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I left the military, I sort of lost my way,” Taske bemoaned in a thick Aussie accent. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Afterward, the army decided the hill was not a significant military target, and abandoned it. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Some KGB personnel even tracked when the lights were left on at night at American military bases in Germany. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It is highly infective, lethally hot, a liquid that would scare the daylights out of a military biohazard specialist. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He winked and smiled as he backed away, giving me a military salute. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The general and all the cryptographers and other military people were gone. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Then you could trade your sturdy military men’s underwear with local people in exchange for potatoes or milk. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He was recruited into the Bowibu at nineteen, after two years of military service. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Then as the haze lifted we saw a sign announcing that we were in restricted military waters. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The Red Army closed down its women’s units, and women were discouraged from continuing or pursuing careers in the military. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It is often difficult for military officers to grasp the fact that the civilian world does not hold them in shivering awe. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The paper explained that, in the 1990s, Wisconsin police departments were given nearly a hundred thousand pieces of military equipment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The summons announced that the civil and military leader of the province would arrive on the following Friday ready to intercede in the conflict. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Most were ruined, but one of the bonobos ran past wearing a dripping-wet military beret over her face. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z By executive order President Truman desegregated the military in 1948, raising expectations among black Americans that conditions would improve even more. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z For the Mercury 7 project, men had to be military test pilots, each with at least 1,500 hours flight experience and a bachelor's degree in engineering. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z But after military surgeons in France and Germany used the methods successfully during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, Lister's approach gained acceptance in Europe. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He wanted England, so that he could travel with her; the Americans had barred entry to high-ranking members of the military government. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z So I hope he's got me down as a superstitious military blockhead. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The San Piedro Review printed a reminder to its readers that it was pledged to remain silent on military news that might comfort or aid the enemy. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z They talked about routes and marching orders and other military things I didn’t understand. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking dignified in his military uniform, he pounded his cane in time to the music. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Derek had told him once that that was what the military did on long marches—a ten-minute break every hour—and by the end of the fourth hour he was more than ready for it. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z The purpose of conventional warfare is to inflict damage on the opponent’s military forces. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z "No amount of heroism or discipline by an Inka army,” Hemming wrote, "could match the military superiority of the Spaniards.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “That’s the first successful military submarine. From the Civil War. I always wanted to see that.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Economic and military rivalries are set aside to save the world. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z He wore a military pilot’s flight suit, with tiny bird’s wings fluttering on his helmet and his black leather boots. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z That same month, the South African military again attacked an ANC outpost in Maseru, Lesotho, killing forty-two people, including a dozen women and children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The military uses of horses and camels, and the killing power of animal-derived germs, complete the list of major links between food production and conquest that we shall be exploring. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But World War II was of magnitude 7.7: some fifty million military personnel and noncombatants were killed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “His boots were military issue, but modified,” said the shoe poet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Basil sprang up in a smart military fashion and saluted. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Around the table sat his top advisors and military commanders. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z They’re stored at military facilities, the FBI, and the National Institutes of Health. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Obviously, the best approach to landing Tina as my girlfriend would be to study the way generals plan military maneuvers. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike the military camp, the city looked chaotic and colorful, with buildings crowded together at haphazard angles. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “There’s another official report that says you were stabbed by an innocent girl in the course of extensive black-market operations involving acts of sabotage and the sale of military secrets to the enemy.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Former president Harry Truman, idealized by many blacks for integrating the military, may have been more decisive than his successor, but his stand on the lunch-counter protests didn’t please blacks. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They also engaged the best seamstresses to make the floating graduating dresses and to cut down secondhand pants which would be pressed to a military slickness for the important event. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Jill would garner pledges from colleges and universities to train teachers and professors to better understand the needs of military children. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z They stood in rows which elongated and revealed new actants in military geometry as we passed them. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The Imperial Command, however, was still led by military men who refused to accept surrender. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe she’d shift me to a school closer to home, maybe a public or Catholic school, but not a military school. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z While the rate declined in the 1990s as the shadows cast by the Vietnam War began to recede, it has picked up again as a result of the military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z His military haircut had grown out spiky and greasy. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z In the Soviet Union the resources, quality, attention and care given to military production is in striking contrast to the little left for consumer goods. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Eisenhower responded by sending weapons and military advisors to South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She slipped quickly down the stairs and into the crowd, moving steadily toward where a group of soldiers garbed in silver-and-white military dress surrounded a portly man with a luxuriant mustache. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Another it was military night maneuvers—roaring motorcycles with sidecars, trucks with glowing green night-lights in their cabs, caissons carrying field artillery—all rattling past under the streetlamps. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Those over fourteen have been given entry- level ranks in the military and are addressed respectfully as “Soldier.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z And she knew he was revered by the people and even the military. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Then, up ahead, we come to a roadblock—also military. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z A military court found that his greed for money and power had led to his involvement in shady deals. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They are like military without uniform, to do dirty work. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z All whites undergo compulsory military training, but no such training was given to Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The harm white people suffer in the drug war is much like the harm Iraqi civilians suffer in U.S. military actions targeting presumed terrorists or insurgents. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A week after we heard that he had been caught by the field gendarmes, those despicable military police. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Standing on the tarmac when the military plane landed. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The military had been transformed, and with that, the Pentagon confidently turned its attention to the real Persian Gulf. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z One is that Indigenous peoples were overwhelmed by superior military campaigns. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Marco gives Enrique a daily allowance, buys him clothes, and sends him to a private military school in the evenings. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z At the National Political Training Institute, or Napola, the boys received additional military training, with an emphasis on the spirit, duty, and discipline of the soldier. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She wears a fancy uniform: gold epaulettes shine from the top of her cloaked military robe, white ropes loop around her shoulders, and a double-arrow insignia is printed on both sleeves. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z They worked with military efficiency as the hare rapped out orders. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Frank ate while Grandmother gave him a sort of military briefing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The soldier wore a black MP band around his arm, “MP” for military police. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z But he embraced the progress this nation made and the military’s role in helping that change to come about. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Barred from the closed meeting, he had to cool his heels for hours, watching “my friends and any number of famous military men go upstairs to a closed GAC session.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Japanese military government had stolen it from their own hungry people. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z By the late 1990s, the overwhelming majority of state and local police forces in the country had availed themselves of the newly available resources and added a significant military component to buttress their drug-war operations. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z As often as I could, I visited military hospitals where American troops were recovering from the wounds of war. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Instead of living in concert with the land, instead of relying on the country for sustenance as the natives did, he attempted to insulate himself from the northern environment with ill-suited military tools and traditions. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His face was oblong, with gray hair cut into a military bristle cut. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He’d paired up with two other veterans, both former military officers who had extensive political and military connections. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I needed to find his military discharge papers, which would provide for me some benefits in the domain of college tuition. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Rondon, dressed in his military uniform and with his faithful dog, Lobo, by his side, read aloud his Order of the Day, which included their work assignments and goals. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He had grown a little toothbrush mustache in the military style. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Many of the men I had known went off to work on radar and other aspects of military research,” he later said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Mark Antony and Cleopatra divided their time between discussing military plans and tactics and enjoying the merrymaking in their honor. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Marine Corps, air force, army, and navy units at various military bases around the country stood by to enact the commands of Red and Blue Team brass. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z According to military theory, “regular warfare,” or “conventional warfare,” refers to war between two or more nations, using battlefield tactics and typical weapons of war. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Again we boarded a bus, this time to a National Guard “military training range.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Our military is diverse, but not this shiny, new branch. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Societies with effective conflict resolution, sound decision making, and harmonious economic redistribution can develop better technology, concentrate their military power, seize larger and more productive territories, and crush autonomous smaller societies one by one. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z GTE was a telecommunications giant that did a lot of work in the consumer market, as well as for the government, including the military. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I sat in these meetings, engrossed and somewhat taken aback by the fact that I knew so little about military life. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z As they pulled to the side of the building, Zeitoun saw police cars and military vehicles. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Their military leaders had decided not to rely on help from the rest of the world. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Most radar transmissions are for military purposes; they scan the skies in constant fear of a massive launch of missiles with nuclear warheads, an augury fifteen minutes early of the end of human civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That changed in the 1980s, when local law enforcement agencies suddenly had access to cash and military equipment specifically for the purpose of conducting drug raids. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It was an auspicious beginning to America’s military involvement in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z As we continue north it becomes increasingly apparent to everyone else what I already know: There’s no escaping the military takeover. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Although Nixon insisted that this was not an invasion of Cambodia but just a military operation, the announcement galvanized the antiwar movement. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Similarly, nearly forty years later, researchers discovered that the Soviets had moved short-range nuclear cruise missiles into striking distance of the US military base in Guantanamo Bay. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z When the military tribunal began on July 8, 1942, the prisoners changed into the new clothes that they purchased on their shopping sprees. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z He used a swatch of military uniform cloth to cover a hole in his pants. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Very few people in the audience had ever served in the military. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I knew little about Botha apart from the fact that he had been an aggressive defense minister and had supported a military strike into Angola in 1975. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Cortes believed that the military conquest of the Alliance had to be accompanied and justified by an equivalent spiritual conquest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Eisenhower worried about the impact of military spending on the budget of the US government and feared it could crowd out other priorities and eventually stall America's roaring economic growth. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Nelson has taken it upon himself to supervise Leah’s military education. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As usual he walked the horse through the British encampment, through the idle men, stacked muskets, military stores, camp kitchens. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The military pants and shirt that Shin found were far too big for him, as were the cotton shoes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I relaxed a bit because I was, by the second day, familiar with the military routine of our ride to Central. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Kissinger defended the attacks, pointing out that American planes were targeting military and industrial targets. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It took the Queen only five minutes to explain the situation to the military men. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z So the military tribunal continued, and the list of criminal charges they were accused of were listed. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z He would have formed a plan...a military strategy. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Two military jeeps are parked next to the medic truck. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Moreover, they hold the military arts in high regard, and they have many regulations for maintaining them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Then he said, “I wonder how many of our ‘military’ are simply people like your friend, disguised tarts.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z American military maps showed this region of South Vietnam in different colors: one color for land controlled by the South Vietnamese government, another for territory controlled by the Viet Cong. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He’s exchanged his military clothes for an elegant, white- vested suit, and his hair is freshly cut. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Then he ordered factories to produce warplanes, tanks, cruisers, and other weapons and ammunition necessary for a strong military. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Elsewhere, in Berlin’s parks and gardens, thousands of Hitler followers stood in military formation. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He had begun to wonder whether the Army should move in with a military biohazard swat team. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We summarized the situation in South Africa and made our request for military training and money. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On November 18 he appointed Lilienthal, Acheson, and Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson as a special committee to weigh the political, military, and technical aspects of the Super. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The end of the war brought an unceasing parade of high-profile visitors to Berkeley—military men, foreign dignitaries, important scientists from abroad—and a stream of invitations to join government commissions and corporate boards. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Bodega would invite her to rallies, to the Lords’ headquarters at 202 East 117th, to Marxist education classes, to urban military tactics classes, to food drives. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z After lunch and several more phone calls, the president went to his office at 4:30 p.m., where his top military advisors joined him. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Marines had captured the Japanese island of Iwo Jima in some of the bloodiest fighting in the history of the American military. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The blind was ingenious in design and interest had already been expressed in the manufacturing rights—mostly by military representatives—but Artemis had resolved to sell the patent to a sporting goods multinational. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I’ll read anything about war; I’m fascinated by the strategies and thinking of great military leaders. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, he figured being in the military would force people to respect him. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Bethlehem Steel brought giant ingots and great slabs of military armor, including a curved plate seventeen inches thick meant for the gun turret of the dreadnought Indiana. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z These were not only Britons and Germans, but also Belgians, French, Italians, Swiss; they were diplomats and political persons of high rank; distinguished clergymen; retired military gentlemen; writers and thinkers. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Drawing himself up to his full height, he saluted in a smart military fashion. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The young women were thrown into military drills first thing the next morning. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In this way, Hitler built up the German military. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z My opponent flailed the air about the Ethiopians throwing rocks and spears at Italian airplanes, “proving” that compulsory military training was needed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They simultaneously attacked nearly every major city and many of the military bases. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z This is a siren from a military medic truck, the ones used for transporting injured soldiers to the hospital. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The military helicopter we saw before idles there, offloading water behind an entire gauntlet of armed soldiers. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z About the time of the Pascals' conversion, a friend of Étienne’s—a military engineer—came to visit and repeated Torricelli’s experiment for the Pascals. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Traditional histories like to equate Beethoven, the colossus of music in the early 1800s, with his contemporary Napoleon Bonaparte, revolutionary-turned-Emperor and serial military adventurer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I thought about Herbert, about how desperately he wanted the American flag he earned through his military service in Vietnam. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Wealthy Germans in luxurious clothing stood in one line, military personnel in another. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The animals decided unanimously to create a military decoration, “Animal Hero, First Class,” which was conferred there and then on Snowball and Boxer. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Nixon knew there was no realistic military path to victory in Vietnam—not at a cost that would be acceptable to the American people. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Anyone who opposes a military invasion, they argue, must be ignorant of the atrocities taking place. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The Black Guard is tasked with ensuring the loyalty of the military. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Newsflashes declared that Martians had defeated the military and taken over its bases. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z He keeps a permanent bottle of gin on a small, shaky wooden table in the corner, and a carton of Newport cigarettes next to it, along with a few military medals. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z I did not hate the young man; I did not see him as the enemy; I did not ponder issues of morality or politics or military duty. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z At Pearl Harbor, the American intelligence community was taken completely by surprise by the Japanese military. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z A caste of military men arose to fill key posts. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He kept his mouth shut about his military service, and as he wandered around aimlessly with his long hair and unwashed clothes, nobody asked. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z But most of the women who hoped to join the military were at first turned away. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Dr. Victor Vaughn, acting surgeon general of the army, has witnessed firsthand the effects of the influenza at Camp Devens, a military camp near Boston. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Both the government and the ANC were working on two tracks: military and political. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Dotted along the way were disabled military vehicles. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Coach O paced the floor in front of us, the line of other coaches behind him like a troop of military police on watch. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The sole Native Americans able to resist European conquest for many centuries were those tribes that reduced the military disparity by acquiring and mastering both horses and guns. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She even got the chance to fly a military jet when her brother, an air force colonel, pulled some strings. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Bush and Conant had proposed something of the sort to Stimson in September 1944: “complete disclosure” of the technology, omitting manufacturing and military details, “as soon as the first bomb has been demonstrated.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z All five women earned full military and cosmonaut status, but only one would be picked to go into space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z That same night, while the sound of the firing squad could be heard, Arcadio was named civil and military leader of the town. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Only because Japan was a populous, isolated island could it get away with its rejection of the powerful new military technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This was my first morning at the military school. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “Then, no matter what we do in the military field there is no sure victory?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z That was when de la O decided he better join the military. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “I want to speak to someone about an important military issue,” Hall said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z What was the gallant grace of the Lynns, the languid elegance of Lord Ingram,—even the military distinction of Colonel Dent, contrasted with his look of native pith and genuine power? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Many were triaged in the war zone and then treated at a military medical facility in Landstuhl, Germany, before being flown to the United States. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The two cohorts came together, their military training kicking in. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The General died the next week, in a military plane crash. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z A military junta had filled the vacuum of power, and the corruption and cruelty were as bad as ever. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Stalin had no intention of keeping the agreement, Sam said, but the deal gave the Soviets time to build up their military strength. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Isn’t it a shame military doctors couldn’t be as good as military sunglasses,” Lillian said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, at twenty-two hundred hours. That’s military time for ten o’clock p.m.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z In the latter half of the century, as technology moved from the military and corporate settings into our businesses and homes, the devices grew masterful at capturing our attention. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “His mom sent him off to military school,” Roy explained, “and now she doesn’t want him back. She said so herself, in front of Beatrice.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But I knew there was no way my mother would allow her only son to be shipped off to military school. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Then suddenly the glaring headlights of the military truck appear and it stops before us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On April 12, 1861, Southern forces attacked Fort Sumter, a military post in Charleston, South Carolina, marking the beginning of the Civil War. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Beginning in the fifties, less discrimination, a truer merit system, and leveler playing fields existed inside the gates of our military posts more than in any Southern city hall or Northern corporation. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Everything was in triplicate—military standard carbon copies. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z One day in San Antonio, Texas, I noticed a minor commotion in the hallway of the military hospital I was visiting. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z That was the idea of one of their best military men, General Ushijima, and it almost worked. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Five minutes!” my entire chalk of Airborne candidates yelled back at him in the military’s famous call-and-response cadence. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Spending so much time with my fellow soldiers reminded me why I'd joined the military. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The military got the kids hooked on weed and alcohol to make them more compliant. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z C. J. could see that a military and political crisis was brewing. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But secrecy was an essential element of military operations, and Ellsberg was not one to blow the whistle. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z On his military coat were sergeant stripes, paratrooper “jump wings,” and a ranger patch. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Although the Japanese emperor was ready to offer unconditional surrender, not all of the military officers agreed. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Among the possibilities mentioned were jail fever, camp fever, eruptive military fever, and autumnal fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z From now on, the American military would be an all-volunteer force. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The freezer has three photographs on it—a little boy, Tommy with some friends, a man in a military uniform. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z A Timex watch with a second hand and a real leather band and numbers for regular time and numbers for military time. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He vowed to keep his military commitment to Vietnam, and took sharp aim at the protestors. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Further research revealed that Penkovsky, as an intelligence officer, had cozied up to some of the highest-ranking members of the Soviet military. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Both North and South Vietnam interrogated prisoners in an attempt to gain military information. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The haircuts drove home to everyone that they were in the military, not on a Komsomol-club-sponsored winter camping adventure. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Yes, urged foreign minister Shigenori Togo, because America’s atomic bomb “drastically alters the whole military situation.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They began to issue military surplus from the First World War—olive-drab knit caps, earmuffs, peacoats, canvas leggings. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “Six hundred rooms, military and servant’s quarters, three gardens, a game park, and stables on either side,’’ said Dorian, staring at his home. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The year’s absence from the military had put Lillian somewhat behind in following the lives of some of her friends. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But under military law, the men could be charged with violating the rules of war. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z In private talks with Republican congressional leaders, Nixon hinted at his military plans. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In Germany, restrictions had been placed on their air force after World War I that meant they now had to train their military pilots in secret. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He liked it, as a king of swagger stick, such as military officers sometimes use. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z By June, William was a first lieutenant with the Army’s military intelligence unit. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Dasch needed to change out of his wet military pants before leading the team to the train depot. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I had a feeling of dread—born of fatigue and aversion to military discipline—that I tried to disguise. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Women shined shoes, worked at the shipyard, and staffed the offices at military installations. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I was told there was an assembly at Central with the military briefing the students. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Their tribal governments had three branches: a civil administration, a military, and a branch that dealt with the sacred. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “As soon as the military can straighten out the chaos that the Marxists left the country in, this kind of problem will be resolved.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a breezy highway driving style, but when making any kind of maneuver he snapped into military action, pummeling the wheel with strong hands. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z With military discipline, the students marched down the block to the Kress building, an Art Deco structure which was, coincidentally, one of the most beautiful commercial buildings in Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He confessed to the assassination of eminent Party members, the distribution of seditious pamphlets, embezzlement of public funds, sale of military secrets, sabotage of every kind. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z No covert military tribunal, Secret Service snoopers, or police group could have devised half as comprehensive or effective a Distant Early Warning System. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Stanton ordered troops to turn out into the streets, the guards to be doubled, military forts to be alert, guns manned, and special guards to be posted around the Old Capitol Prison. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But Drake is the Republic’s best university, and seeing as how the best are always assigned to the military, our drill room is packed with students. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Government and military leaders gathered to discuss the next question: Was it time to accept the Potsdam Declaration—and unconditional surrender? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Militarism is a belief in the need to have a strong and aggressive military that is in a constant state of readiness. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Rumfoord was thinking in a military manner: that an inconvenient person, one whose death he wished for very much, for practical reasons, was suffering from a repulsive disease. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometime they’d strike out and seize the military supplies they knew the provincials were collecting. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z At his words, there was an immediate clamor of loud voices arguing for and against the likelihood of a swift and easy Communist defeat in the hands of American military might. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The problem was that military school is not free. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z His image is accompanied by shots of military personnel helping families evacuate onto massive trucks, handing out water to long lines of people. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I walk a few steps and see high school graduation, Stuart proud in a military school uniform. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z A propaganda song, “Footsteps,” was circulated at military bases to prepare the cadre for the coming of a dynamic “Young General.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z On November 13, 2001, President Bush issued an order to set up a military tribunal system to try the men accused of helping the hijackers. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The messenger even went to the extreme of violating a military secret so that they would believe his identity. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Four F,” he said—a military classification for those physically unfit for service. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “These are her sons. This one is in the Marines,” I said, placing my finger on the guy in the military uniform. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Although Swiss and Spanish infantry may be considered terrifying, nevertheless both have defects, so that a third kind of military organization could not only oppose them but also be confident of overcoming them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z He looked to be in his early forties and wore a short military haircut. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z More than a third of the national budget was going to the military, leaving people hungry and without jobs. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z While the Rad Lab quickly moved back into basic nuclear research, Ernest Lawrence maintained his personal interest in military projects. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The crowd sang “God Bless America” and the military band played. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Security was tight; I went in a convoy of cars and military vehicles accompanied by at least a dozen warders. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The bond between Ernest Lawrence and Robert Oppenheimer would influence the development of nuclear physics itself, allied strategy in World War II, and civilian and military nuclear policy through the postwar years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Here and there, military men in fancy dress uniforms are looking up at the distant flashes of fireworks in the sky. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Women weren't allowed to fly military jets or be pilots for the military in 1962. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, because he was a military man and knew how to win the people over and to secure himself against the nobility, he succeeded in waging war against them for many years. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z KLA soldiers had put sometimes violent pressure on fellow Albanians to flee Kacanik for refugee camps in Macedonia, with the aim of provoking sympathy from the international community and—they hoped—a military response. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The most prestigious division was the SS, which was originally created as Hitler’s personal bodyguard but grew into a terrifying and brutal military force. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Aureliano José, who was then finishing his military training, finally woke up to reality and went to sleep in the barracks. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In the early days of his youth he was sent to serve as a soldier under Paulo Vitelli, so that, once he was versed in that discipline, he might attain some outstanding military rank. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The report ends by saying that the matter was resolved, without military casualties. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Kappe told him he was crazy and wouldn't last two weeks in the military because he was too used to having his freedom. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Public contentment with horses and railroads remained high until World War I, when the military concluded that it really did need trucks. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They knew that Germany did not yet have sufficient military strength to survive a war with either France or Britain, let alone the two of them combined. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The new American president, John F. Kennedy, refused to be bullied, demanding hard intelligence about the Soviet Union's military capabilities. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In my era at Truman, many graduates did go on to achieve high levels of success—they became doctors, lawyers, college professors, engineers, business owners, high-ranking military officers. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z It was impossible to prove that she was dead, so by the Soviet Union’s strict military regulations she couldn’t be given the award. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Most notably, they provided meat, milk products, fertilizer, land transport, leather, military assault vehicles, plow traction, and wool, as well as germs that killed previously unexposed peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A young man in a beret and military fatigues knelt on one knee in the grass, holding a Russian assault rifle, watching us with mild interest. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Still dissatisfied, he went to the military school from time to time to throw corn at the cadets, shouting through the fence that they were all a bunch of chickens. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I never knew what his job was in the military. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I felt like being at military school was keeping me in a bubble, ignorant of what was going on with my people on the outside. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The country filled with men in uniform, with war machines, flags, hymns, and parades, because the military understood the need for the people to have their own rituals and symbols. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He asks for a short crop, military style. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z They were seamlessly connected to the commanders of the four military services in a state-of-the-art interface. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z One by one, Oshiro’s three older brothers had left Hawaii to join the military and were sent to Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z They stripped everything military off of them and dragged the loot back to their camp. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Yet he joined to his wickedness such strength of mind and body, that when he entered upon a military career, he rose through the ranks to become praetor of Syracuse. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z That strength of brute numbers was the first of many military advantages that food-producing tribes gained over hunter-gatherer tribes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Her father had been in the South Vietnamese military and worked with the Americans at the Da Nang Air Force base. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “One evening in New York City,” Gold remembered, “about October- November 1942, Semyonov asked me if I had heard anything of a military weapon.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But he went on to say that the defense would deny a number of the state’s assertions, including the contention that Umkhonto we Sizwe was the military wing of the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It doesn’t look much like military issue, but it has seen active service and has the bloodstains to prove it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The Dutch military held out for barely three weeks before surrendering to Hitler. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Two others went through his saddlebags with a military efficiency, laying all his worldly possessions out on the ground. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Now she fanned the flames by performing military dance exercises. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z But it quickly became clear that the Communist forces were disciplined and committed as they wreaked carnage on both military and civilian groups. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “He’s military, you’re not. And I’m already in jail, so don’t tempt me to commit homicide.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Below this threshold, communities, businesses, social networks and military units can maintain themselves based mainly on intimate acquaintance and rumour-mongering. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, when he joined the Marines and quickly went AWOL, Deborah tracked him down and made him turn himself in to the military police. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Sometimes he would think about the relationship of Catholics and the military. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that the war was over, Stalin himself refused to allow women to continue in military service in the air force. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It was a slow procession and the band played sad, romantic, military marches. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It turns out they are the military and this is a military testing zone. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z We made a sharp turn, and when I rounded the corner I saw, not far away, a lone man wearing a military uniform. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z No matter that the sky had changed—it was an obstacle course of balloon cables and restrictions and military aircraft and, often, dirty weather. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He later participated in military campaigns by the Union army to defeat the Confederates in Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The refugee Hungarian physicist had placed the very notion of atomic weaponry on the federal government’s radar in 1939, when he prompted Albert Einstein to alert Franklin Roosevelt to the military potential of nuclear fission. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A sense of dread settled over him, worse than the day the military officer had come to the door. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z But after the war, with Soviet women officially deemed “physiologically unsuitable for becoming military or even civilian pilots,” the numbers dropped away drastically. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z This was military school, I thought to myself. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z "They also want to make war when it is not necessary. As long as military men control the country you are always going to have a war." Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The orchestra played military marches near the camp entrance. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone says that the military helicopters are transporting water. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z As their car careened past a concrete Jewish settlement with its enclosures of barbed-wire fencing and military tower, Omer craned his neck to stare out the window and spoke soberly. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “You told me. But you don’t think like a military man.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z What had it been like to serve in the North Korean military? Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Military secrecy makes the military the most difficult sector of any society for the citizens to monitor. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The officers and enlisted men in his command had identity for him only as military quantities. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z One administration official went down to the basement and was alarmed by the men and their military equipment. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “You just saved us from making a major military blunder. Well done, indeed!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Despite the deep divisions in the country, Nixon moved forward with military operations in Cambodia. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Lawrence had expected that the Rad Lab, like other scientific institutions, would be placed on a crash diet after the war as the torrent of military funding dried up. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But he opened with a bang: “The object of the project is to produce a practical military weapon in the form of a bomb in which the energy is released by a fast-neutron chain reaction.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside I kept away from the station, where there were military police, and picked up a cab at the edge of the little park. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The German forces hadn’t been halted in their furious bid for military supremacy over the USSR, but the front was no longer advancing. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z But within barely a decade, the Klan had been extinguished, largely by legal and military interventions out of Washington, D.C. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z For the next few weeks I stuck with Captain Carroll and other military personnel, continuing to write my story, more sympathetic than Farmer had been to their mission of nation building. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z By the end of March, the last US combat troops pulled out of Vietnam, leaving ten thousand Americans: military advisors, Marines to protect US installations, and non-military personnel. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z On a clear morning later that spring, a small military plane cruised low over the Plain of Reeds, a contested area near Saigon. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “I am convinced that the only way to move the negotiations off dead center is to do something on the military front. That is something they will understand.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He frequently extolled the all-encompassing virtues of Ancient Greek theatre, which drew its audience 'from the government and judicial buildings, from the country, from ships, from military barracks and from the furthest regions’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Would it be better if they enlisted in the military on the “buddy program” that allowed friends to go through boot camp together? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z My mom likes to make fun of his career as a jarhead—his “extraction missions,” because technically he worked as a military dentist and never actually left his base. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z In all probability, the truck he rode in was a military vehicle that had been illegally converted into a for-profit people mover. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z And I would always reply, “When you are caught between military and militants, there is no good.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She heard Gleeson Hedge in his room next door, humming a military song—“Stars and Stripes Forever,” maybe? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And all over the country, teens and young adults who had grown up believing they would come of age in wartime rushed to military posts and recruitment offices to volunteer to defend their Motherland. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z En route, he was collared by military police and hauled back to camp, where he stood trembling before his commander, Kurt Meyer. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The May-Johnson Bill would meet its legislative doom thanks to opposition from the scientists and public skepticism about military control, energized by public missteps such as the destruction of the Japanese cyclotrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There were about a million words worth of secret government and military documents, and another 1.5 million of narrative history written by the researchers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Then turning to the two military men, she said, ‘Prepare to leave immediately.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The people loved peace and quiet and, because of this, they were pleased by decent princes, while the soldiers loved a prince with military spirit who was cruel, arrogant, and rapacious. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z All our intelligence said that the Japanese military was still not ready to quit, even though the ordinary people were desperate for peace. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Pa is so afraid something will happen to her that he has two military policemen follow her everywhere she goes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Aberdeen Gardens, the sprawling development built on former Hampton Institute farmland, was another desirable location, its wide streets with grassy medians and surrounding forests drawing many active-duty and retired military families. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It’s a wonder the military hasn’t got onto this. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z American women spent years persuading the government to let them deliver military planes, but only Soviet women could fight air battles in them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Stalin called on the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs or NKVD, a military police force of spies and assassins, to root out treachery...whether it was real or possible or even fantastically impossible. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I turned my attention away from the woman heckling me as the soldiers paraded down the aisle with military precision. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They taped it shut with military brown sticky tape: the first line of defense against a hot agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z To this end, he took what seems at first sight a rather bizarre decision, upping sticks and moving to Holland, where he signed up for military service with the Prince of Orange. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z In 1956, he returned to Hampton, taking a job at the post office as a mail carrier, maintaining his trim military shape through miles of walking each day. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Then surely the High King would relent and put the crown on the head of the prince with the most power, the one with the military on his side. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Instead, a clipped military voice was reading out, with a sort of brutal relish, a description of the armaments of the new Floating Fortress which had just been anchored between Iceland and the Faroe Islands. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He’d removed his helmet, revealing a babyish face that didn’t go with his military haircut or his big burly frame. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He entered the army in 1964 when it became clear that if he didn’t join the military and get off the streets, something serious was going to happen. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z At the agency’s inception, scientists had hoped it would serve as a civilian bulwark against military monopolization of nuclear research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I spent my first night in an abandoned military barracks. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The General was a portly, ugly man, his manners were not refined, and his talk was conspicuous for an eagerness to apply military similes to a very wide variety of matters. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Although the National Executive Committee stated, “Our emphasis still remains mass political action,” Umkhonto was referred to as the “military wing of our struggle.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Pointing to the map in Major Cooper’s arms, Wheeler described a more aggressive alternative: mine North Vietnamese harbors to block Soviet and Chinese ships bringing in military supplies. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Euergetes, himself but newly crowned, rushed to Antioch at the head of a large military force. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z To neutralize the poisons, military hospitals sprayed the chemicals in the air and on smelly body waste. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Aimee’s mother hadn’t been able to get a flight home to Los Angeles until that Friday, and when she did, she said it was like entering a military zone. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z He was also in the ROTC, so two days a week he wore a military uniform to campus, drilled, and learned to fire a rifle. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The closer we moved to an actual village, the more military and wounded we’d encounter. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Over the next two days, North Korean soldiers charged past the dividing line, scattering South Korea's military forces. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Two of the men were lieutenants Washington and Browning, recently returned from military service overseas as members of the all-black Eighth Regiment. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Hiskey suddenly found himself drafted into the army and shipped to a remote military base in the Northwest Territories of Canada—far from atomic bomb secrets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Beginning that very month, Harvey's wiretap commenced recording thousands of classified conversations among Soviet and East German military officials. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z "I found that the majority of the workers employed at all plants were either prisoners of war or German military prisoners or Russians," Dasch said. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Stanton gave orders to rush military guards to the home of every member of the cabinet and to Vice President Johnson’s hotel. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z All of this has a military feel to it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z After Allen finished his two years of college, the army quickly reclassified him I-A, available for military service. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z It was idiocy, I thought, the military bed-making fetish, but the wisdom of the advice was immediately clear. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Under MacLean’s direction, the college also established a US naval training school, effectively turning the campus into an active military base. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Suddenly I held out my hand and we shook, he gravely, from the pompous height of his municipal and military dream. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z At A military hospital camp at Kendall Green, near Washington, D.C. one end of what would become the National Mall, the Washington Monument was one-third built. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z They passed the military checkpoint surrounded by striped orange sawhorses. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Arbuthnot’s name, age, home address and exact military standing were all ascertained. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The whispers were fanciful and improbable: the youth of Soweto had overthrown the military and the soldiers had dropped their guns and fled. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn't quite like stepping into a military ambush, or being on the front lines in Spain, or witnessing the aftermath of an atomic bomb, but the atmosphere around me was definitely hostile. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Again it was a fan boat, also with four military personnel aboard, and again Zeitoun and Frank waved and called for help. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The four captives rode standing, surrounded by the six military personnel. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Nazi soldiers kept their guns on the crowd as a military truck pulled up. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z He was in the US Army now, bound by the rules of the military. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He had written it in Sanskrit, which was his mother tongue, and he had encoded the even lines in the private cipher of the Emperor Augustus and the odd ones in a Lacedemonian military code. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I wasn’t even allowed to tell her what branch of the military I am serving with. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z But when Napoleon overturned the French Republic and declared himself omnipotent military dictator, again just as Adams had predicted would happen, Jefferson quickly shifted his position to accommodate the new reality. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “They said it was because my older brother joined the military police,” Gunwoo choked out. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “That he isn’t cut out for a military career,” said the instructor. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Before, all those times, when I remembered the tissue with my tears on it after Bas told me he was joining the military. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The system, known as servi-cha, or service car, was invented in the late 1990s by government and military elites to milk cash from traders who needed to move themselves and their goods around the country. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Moreover, he saw that the Italian military forces, particularly those he would have to use, were controlled by those who had reason to fear the Pope’s greatness. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The university had a reputation for spawning world-class scientists exploring how to optimize use of technology in airplanes and in the military, in the tradition of Broadbent and Dr. Treisman. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z All around were police cars, military Humvees, jeeps, and other military vehicles. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z It made such an impression on him that from then on he detested military practices and war, not because of the executions but because of the horrifying custom of burying the victims alive. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z We were departing quietly, secretly, under a heavy police escort, in the middle of the night, and in less than half an hour we found ourselves at a small military airport outside the city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z How do we know that Galileo’s telescope was too good for naval and military use? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z My military garrison cap was intentionally a size too big, forcing me to keep my head up, walking taller with every step. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z When he was young he’d wanted to go into the theater: in the army he used to act in military vaudevilles. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Unlike military pistols that could fire up to six rounds before reloading, the Deringer could be fired just once. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Every time she ate the head off one soldier, another grew up in its place, with a green military coat and a yellow busby. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Night after night, green and gray military vehicles cruise the streets. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He considered military men unprincipled loafers, ambitious plotters, experts in facing down civilians in order to prosper during times of disorder. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Each side is tempted to increase its military advantage, but not in so striking a way as seriously to alarm the other. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The line of cars followed behind two unmarked military vehicles. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The first was the general assembly, or ekklesia, which consisted of any male citizen who had completed his military training and reached adulthood. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Calling the Soviet Union an "evil empire," Reagan ordered the largest peacetime military buildup ever. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z We had three meals a day, reliable medical care, and the protection of the US military. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z When all Jungvolk and Jungmädel had recited the oath, the trumpets blared a fanfare, and a military band burst out in National Socialist songs. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The two were taken to a nearby military camp. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They did not come into substantial contact with Europeans until the sixteenth century, when Russian fur merchants overturned their governments, established military outposts throughout the region, and demanded furs in tribute. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Dad had found Gat both a decent chess opponent and a willing audience for his boring stories about military history, so they’d spent some time together. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z It’s interesting, actually, sort of a military style with bold black buttons. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The camps were organized along military lines and often supervised by army officers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z So, on July 2, President Roosevelt issued a proclamation to establish a military tribunal under the Military Code of Justice. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The United States still had many military facilities in Europe; when I earned ratings of fluent in German, Polish, and Russian, I expected to be stationed in Germany or Poland. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z America's factories efficiently mass-produced military weapons, planes, tanks, cars, and other machinery with fewer workers and at a lower cost. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z In seeing the success of their unified fellows here, perverts around the world will also band together to capture the military in their respective countries. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He questioned the competence of the U.S. military, the wisdom of U.S. foreign policy around the world and in the Middle East in particular. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Now that they were without her, Frank was the next best thing the group had to a military strategist. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z These goggles were a lucky steal from a military supply shipment. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “You have two hours to get footage showing the damage from the bombing, establish that Thirteen’s military unit remains not only functional but dominant, and, most important, that the Mockingjay is still alive. Any questions?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The bill ceded a large measure of control over atomic research to the military. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z On the long flight back to Washington, D.C., he stood in the back of his windowless military airplane, arguing about the situation with Bob Komer, one of President Johnson’s aides on Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z They’d dug in with their usual military precision - ten-foot-deep trenches and spiked earthen walls around the perimeter, a watchtower on each corner armed with ballistae. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Or rather, every piece of machinery—the police, the military, the prisons—that was meant to protect people like him was devouring anyone who got close. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “That means I make all military decisions. I believe that includes what we are doing today.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The enemy is engaged in making war in this country, transmitting news to Berlin, and spreading propaganda and lies about the condition and morale of American military forces. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “A military solution to the problem is not certain,” he told the group. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He bristled at the hours wasted in Bible study, chapel, and military drill. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Advisors warned Johnson that the government of South Vietnam would not survive long without increased U.S. military support. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Through military drills and marches, the Hitler Youth learned to think and act as one. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z With supersonic military aircraft a reality, and the industry moving forward on commercial supersonic transport, it appeared that the “revolutionary advances for atmospheric aircraft” had run their course. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The Army has a mission, which is to defend the country against military threats. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Although they were eager to get to Japan, a lot of our military leaders also dreaded that thought. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Arabian and Bactrian camels played a similar military role within their geographic range. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A bearded man in a long cloak, whom Poppy introduced as Tayeb the Elder, shot a gun off into the air like a military salute. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I decided not to tell my father about the military trucks we saw at our high school. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z We were high-school seniors, and the clock was ticking: once out of high school all American males faced two years of compulsory military service. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z To keep the Cambodia operation secret, the military prepared phony reports for Congress, stating that the bombs were actually falling on Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z They walked past a dozen military personnel and into the building. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z When I ask what Pa does at work, she tells me he is a military policeman. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As they passed the Iron Duke, the British military service band started into a waltz. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A chance to step away from the hut-two-three-four military routine that is my life. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z As Allied bombing continued on German cities, the duties of the Hitler Youth grew riskier, especially as the older Hitler Youth were called to military service. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Messmate—a person/friend in a military camp with which one regularly takes meals. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He expected ultimately to be drafted and serve—the war was in full swing, and he was nothing if not dutiful—but a high blood pressure reading kept him out of the military and Vietnam. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z It was a military craft, far bigger than any other boat Zeitoun had seen since the storm. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I went into uniform at the time when our enemies began to recede so fast that there had to be a hurried telescoping of military training plans. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Jim’s devotion to the military service made it easy for him to understand Katherine’s strong commitment to her work at Langley. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He was serving Baby’s porridge when the deputy president spoke briefly on the radio, the voice understated, as if he were exhausted from the effort of saying, “The government is handing over to the military.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I had two uncles in the military, and they would often stop by the house with their friends to visit. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But first, they hastily changed out of their grayish-brown military uniforms and into their American clothes. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z She studied history written by Herodotus and Thucydides, which included political and military events of the past, and memorized the speeches of Demosthenes to learn the fine points of public speaking and debate. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Irregular warfare is war in which one or more sides might not use a regular military organization, and might or might not use conventional weapons or tactics. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z As commercial and military vessels became more abundant, the noise background in the oceans, especially at a frequency of twenty Hertz, became noticeable. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I reaffirmed that we aimed for hard military targets, not people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z According to the Millennium Challenge scenario, a rogue military commander had broken away from his government somewhere in the Persian Gulf and was threatening to engulf the entire region in war. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Then they took a group of traders from Wall Street across New York Harbor to the military base on Governor’s Island and played war games on computers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z On the other hand, it is evident that when princes have given more thought to delicate refinements than to military concerns, they have lost their state. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z In Japan, sumo is not only the national sport but also a repository of the country’s religious, military, and historical emotion. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “It’s best described as a ‘pilots airplane,’ ” said an American military official in a front-page article in the Washington Post. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In military language, grandchildren, a “non-com” is a noncommissioned officer, anyone above the rank of a private, but no higher than a sergeant. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Monge’s work was so important to the military that much of it was made into a state secret by the revolutionary government and by the Napoleonic government that succeeded it soon afterward. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z About two hundred yards away, just across the river, was some sort of military encampment. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z But it’s whispers mostly, bits of rumor from the staff here who aren’t military, the ones who feel twinges of guilt that make them feign not a friendliness but a base level of civility. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z We compare strategy; the quality of each side’s military intelligence; the strength of their positions—and then we total up each side’s advantages and disadvantages like we’re doing an arithmetic problem. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Sergio tells me about a whole bunch of decorated Puerto Rican men and women who have served in the United States military. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z She brings her toes and heels together in a single dramatic click, overemphasizing a military way of standing straight. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I did not feel comfortable discussing the very sensitive issues of military training in front of a young woman I did not know and was not sure I could trust. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The sheer power of nuclear weapons themselves, any one of which could destroy an entire city, established a new principle for military conflict, dubbed "mutual assured destruction," or "MAD." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z All the officers had reported for active duty, leaving the two of them behind at Riverbank, with less and less military code breaking coming their way. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z At the same time, the German dictator built up a huge military and started hacking out what he called a “Greater Germany,” a massive European empire that Hitler insisted rightfully belonged to Germans. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A military surgeon would have admired the clinical fidelity of the artist’s rendition of all Christ’s wounds—the spear wound, the thorn wounds, the holes that were made by the iron spikes. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched as he bent over his new gray shirts, pushing his glasses up on his nose while applying a precise military crease to the middle of each breast pocket. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Many affluent families left Pensacola for Santa Rosa County, and military families from nearby Eglin Air Force Base settled there. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Initially the British Crown did not provide much regular military support to the settlers in its colonies. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Critics argued about how the NeuroLink engine would change everyday life, travel, medicine, the military, education. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Some military leaders even expressed interest in the use of biological warfare. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Since his sons avoided the hardships of military service, they became private citizens after having been dukes. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Even before the British got into their transports, word had come back to Boston that the King’s fort at Portsmouth had been seized and His Majesty’s military stores stolen by the rebellious Americans. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The one high point of the months of waiting came when Tyndall Air Force Base honored her aviation skills and honors by letting her fly a military jet, the Delta Dagger TF-102A. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z In 1961, when Kennedy had taken office, there were seven hundred American military advisors in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Lee was not buried at his beloved Virginia home, Arlington, which had been confiscated during the war and redesignated as a U.S. military cemetery. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He need only be careful that they do not seize too much military power and authority. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Their heads were adorned with matte black helmets, and they reminded him of characters in one of those shoot-’em-up military games. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Like me, she was interested in finding new ways to support military families. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z As a military man, he was skeptical about explosive devices that were too powerful to serve as practical weapons, and less impressed than Truman with the idea that bigger was invariably better. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They had speculated that growing up in the American military could affect the personality of an individual in one of two ways. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Turning left on Iwo Jima Boulevard, Ben smiled as he always did when he found himself navigating through the hall of mirrors known as military housing. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The older boys take everything much more seriously—the drilling, the weapons training, the endless military parades. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Van Riper was a student of military history. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Beyond the gated community at Alexandria, then, Hellenistic Egypt was a stewpot of roiling antagonisms, contained only by an elaborate system of regulations, appeasement, and, if necessary, military force. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Like Lee before him, a former commander of West Point, a courteous man, military, a marvelous horseman, another gentleman. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For what is strange about these ten telescopes is that they were too good for their obvious, military, use. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Two military personnel with almost as many ribbons on their chests were with him. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z In ordinary circumstances, having the military in control would hardly be good news, but it felt like the best thing I’d ever heard. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Gerhard is a good fit for the military, Helmuth decides, even though he isn't a Nazi, has never been a Nazi, has never approved of Hitler and the Nazi government. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Generations of settlers, mostly farmers, gained experience as “Indian fighters,” although they were not necessarily in the regular military. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z But the comfort-loving Descartes wasn’t a fighting soldier; he found his military niche as an engineer, using his mathematical skills rather than his less-developed physical abilities. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Soviet women “were frustrated by contradictory messages: become aviators, but not in the highest levels of the military,” said Adrienne Marie Harris in her PhD thesis about women soldiers in the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He imposed obligatory military service for men over eighteen, declared to be public property any animals walking the streets after six in the evening, and made men who were overage wear red armbands. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z It was a standard issue military timepiece and it counted down just fine. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Because female doctors were not commissioned as army surgeons, Edson worked as a military nurse. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Compared to Hitler’s forces, the Polish military was primitive, consisting of a few airplanes, a few ships, and a small cavalry. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z And we happily sounded that military drum roll, the twirling roar of the Spanish r. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The Pentagon, for its part, has given away military intelligence and millions of dollars in firepower to state and local agencies willing to make the rhetorical war a literal one. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z ‘I know what’s my duty to report and what’s my duty to keep mum about. Take military secrets. I don’t tell them.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Women from other branches of the military rarely mention it either. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In a military title, general is usually the important part, so it gets the s. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Van Riper lives just outside Williamsburg, in Virginia, in the kind of immaculate, orderly house that one would expect of a career military man. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z All the lights in this military sector are on. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Two military lorries with canvas sides, with half a dozen armed guards in each. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z During the trial, the appointed defense lawyer presented no evidence about Herbert’s background, his military service, his trauma from the war, his relationship with the victim, his obsession with the girlfriend—nothing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Almost all the grown-up Coalwood boys I knew had either joined the military services or gone to work in the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They were trained in military tactics, which they put to good use against the English. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Instead, he came out of the military angrier than ever. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z When they call the place usamriid, they drawl the word in a military way, making it sound like “you Sam rid,” which gives it some hang time in the air. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Hitler Youth boys received training that prepared them for military life, whereas girls were trained to become good wives and mothers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Washington decided that he, as commander-in-chief, had the power to have a kind of military court called a court martial. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood resolutely before the window and put my shoulders back in good military posture, took a deep breath, and yanked the curtain aside. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z They had some of their military resources situated on the outskirts of the Capitol itself—nuclear missiles, aircraft, troops — but a significant chunk of their power was now under an enemy’s control. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z According to one estimate, the corporate profits in military weapons procurement are 30 to 50 percent higher than in an equally technological but competitive civilian market. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Not long after, a large military vehicle drove up to the gate and rapped on the door. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I still remember the day that my brother missed his induction ceremony into the Republic military. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “Bombs were dropped on the helpless civilian population. Residential areas were their sole targets, and it was obvious that this strategy had nothing to do with any military targets. Simply put, it was sheer terror.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z With his own military power and their support, he can very easily put down those who are powerful, and remain complete arbiter of that region. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z An armor-plated military vehicle encountering no greater obstacle than a lost roller skate. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Then only those involved in the Biafran military were to report. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Spy novels, as I and the military know but my brother does not, are crawling with spies who pretend to be harmless butterfly fanciers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z "State religion and imperial ideology,” Kolata argued, "performed much the same work as military conquest, but at significantly lower cost.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The doctor tells a soldier in the room what he needs and orders the soldier to obtain the items at the Lincoln General Hospital, a nearby military facility. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird appeared on television condemning the newspaper for printing secret military documents. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Before she became a nurse, the military might have been seen as a step up for her kids. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z We’d heard rumors that service in the military was no longer voluntary, that everyone between the ages of twenty-two and forty had to serve—most of them in the army’s new Psi branch. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z After the boys completed their Reich Labor Service, they reported for two years of military service, either with the Wehrmacht, as the regular German army was called, or with the SS. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer, who could tell they were witnessing a theatrical display of military authority, was unfazed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The all-day parade, titled Hitler Unlooses War, was a demonstration of America's military and industrial power, aiming to stamp out any doubt about America's ability to crush Hitler and win the war. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The military provided the model for the chain of command; enlisted men and women were marshaled daily by their superior officers into a battle of wills with the mass of angry and resentful prisoners. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This practice of taking and displaying the heads of enemies was a part of European military tradition. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Joining the Sixers was a lot like joining the military. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z This came about from nothing other than his excessive compassion, which gave his soldiers more licence than is suitable to military discipline. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z They walked on and found a military wagon with a horse hitched to it. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z He had come to the slaughterhouse to recruit men for a German military unit called “The Free American Corps.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Afraid of reprisals from the military if they did seek help, many Haitians stayed away unless their health problems became critical. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z ‘Everyone loved them and enjoyed them. But when the reign of Tiberius ended, his poems were forgotten. The words you’re hearing now are those of your son in the military.’ The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The controversy surrounding military tribunals and civil rights continues. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z They must have been living off benefits from the military or something. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z A very distinguished officer had committed suicide, another had resigned—anxious faces had suddenly lost their anxiety, certain military precautions were relaxed. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z In the custom house a lieutenant, very thin and military, questioned us. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z In April we went to Colorado to film foster children who were placed for adoption with military families and remained a few extra days so I could try skiing. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Although I was sad to leave my friends in London, I was now embarking on what was to be the most unfamiliar part of my trip: military training. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After a moment I broke the awkward silence by telling him my mother had begun to threaten me with military school if I didn’t get my grades and discipline together. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z For me, the most humbling lessons came when I visited military communities and met with soldiers' spouses—groups of mostly women, though sometimes with a few men mixed in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The military presence in the harbor was even heavier than I expected. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Perhaps they’ve been summoned to protect the high-ranking military guests and ambassadors? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z On this occasion the king released political prisoners, remitted taxes, endowed temples, forgave rebels, increased military preparedness and, in short, did all the things that modern rulers do when they wish to stay in office. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Pizarro hurriedly convoked a military tribunal, which quickly sentenced the Inka to execution—the theory apparently being that the approaching army would not attack if its leader were dead. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I take the long way through Batalla, through the sectors side roads and abandoned buildings, not stopping until I’m a good distance outside of military grounds. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Even though I’d grown to love military school, I still had mixed feelings about being there, and they were eating at me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z With a stroke of the pen the military changed world history, erasing every incident, ideology, and historical figure of which the regime disapproved. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Time and time again, military leaders told presidents what it would take to win. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He had survived so many military campaigns; how could he have been taken so easily, so silently, by—Con didn’t even know what had taken him. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z But now they’ll only let military personnel inside due to the security risk. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z That it was really a military necessity few, after reading this book, will believe. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z His hair was cut short in a military burr. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The gun-emplacements are camouflaged with bushes against aerial observation, and look like a kind of military Feast of the Tabernacles. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad said it was because they’d lost some big contract with the military. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z They were also exceptionally fit and disciplined, almost military in their bearing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z My mother had noticed the way I had changed since leaving for military school. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In fact, in none of his wartime speeches did he ever mention women in the military, though nearly a million Soviet women would eventually fight in the Great Patriotic War. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Now they could move ahead— but under standards of military secrecy even more stringent than those of Briggs, about which Lawrence had groused constantly. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At that time the Soviet Red Army was the only military in the world that officially allowed women to go into combat. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z For Mom the move from Texas to Florida was a military operation, like the many moves she had made as a child. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the next few days, protestors threw rocks and bottles, broke windows, and set fire to a military building on campus. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Alec had been retired from the military for a long time and really, really, really hated it when Mark called him that. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Maybe he’s remembering when I used to tag along after him and Metias, asking them inane questions about how the military worked. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Though there had been no military reaction, there had been a public relations uproar in many foreign capitals. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “I am a military emissary caught in enemy territory masquerading as a civilian. I count as a spy. The Geneva Convention doesn’t protect me.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z During the war itself, William had to stand by and watch as his colleagues and assistants became military officers, then rose in rank. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z By the light of day, I saw the changes wrought upon Boston by military rule. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z They assumed there would be activity there, that if anywhere would have a police or military presence, it would be Claiborne, the main thoroughfare nearby. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Government employment figures jumped significantly in 1983, reflecting nothing more than a decision to count the military among the employed. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The group that runs war games for the U.S. military is called the Joint Forces Command, or, as it is better known, JFCOM. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z China and Russia deploy their military forces to strategic positions throughout the world while suggesting that the US capitulate to North Korea’s demands. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “How she managed to be named Aspirant in the first place I don’t understand. Women have no place in the military.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She has the tags for a metal frame bunk bed with mattresses that appears to at one time have belonged to a military enthusiast. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Marina hadn’t forgotten Militsa’s comments about the young recruits’ lack of military polish, and the first order that she gave at Engels was for them all to get men’s haircuts. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z As is often the case, the Toltec’s rapid military success led to political strife. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As part of their duty to serve, the Hitler Youth attended three-week summer infantry camps, intended to prepare them for military life. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The mighty dinos stood in military formation, each with additional armor supplementing its already fierce horned head shield and thick hide. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “They were practically giving them away at a military surplus auction. I mean, for twenty-five bucks how could I not buy it?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Every Thursday Art mounts a carefully planned military- style operation. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z We visited Baghdad, the U.S. military headquarters in Fallujah, and the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit encampment outside Babil, in the heart of Iraq’s so-called Sunni Triangle. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Wes had his entire operation organized with the precision of a military unit or a division of a Fortune 500 company. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “Yes, I forgot to say! My nephew is here, my first husband’s sister’s boy. He’s military, as I’m sure you saw.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z His clothes and haircut—Mao suits and a short military trim with no sideburns— were the same as his grandfather’s when he seized control of North Korea in 1945. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The document’s four short paragraphs outlined Bush’s proposal to establish a National Defense Research Committee to coordinate all technical research with military applications under his chairmanship. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Three years of military rule had resembled a war and caused a public health disaster. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Executive Order 9066 had been signed by President Roosevelt, giving the War Department authority to define military areas in the western states and to exclude from them anyone who might threaten the war effort. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked just like the illustrations Annabeth had seen in military history books—with a defensive trench lined with spikes, high walls, and watchtowers armed with scorpion ballistae. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He’d not been able to give the marriage quite the attention he’d have liked, having spent so much time in the military, traveling, and otherwise in and out of the home. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Tallmadge, a bold and dashing officer, would run what today would be called a department of military intelligence. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The military experts then say that the virus has undergone “extreme amplification.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence when Japan sent troops to Korea and annexed it in 1910, Japanese military leaders celebrated the annexation as “the restoration of the legitimate arrangement of antiquity.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Charles staging ground and gathered a crew of police and military personnel. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z On the third day his father gave evidence of his power with the military. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “You can do more! A lot more. If you want a military record you can be proud of, you’ll do a heck of a lot more than just what you have to. Believe me.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z They had their guns pointed at us, but we laughed at them and walked outside to where military vehicles waited to transport us somewhere. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Some came from generations of military service, while others were teenage girlfriends who’d become brides just ahead of a deployment—their futures now having taken a sudden, complicated turn. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Roosevelt summoned his military aide, General Edwin M. “Pa” Watson. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Many people voiced the opinion that space exploration wasn't a military matter but a scientific one. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z All the swirling angels suddenly seemed much closer together; the military man was making out with one of the mermaids; even the palm trees swayed seductively in time with one another. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z They focus on the North’s chronic food shortages, human rights violations, military provocations, nuclear program, and dependence on China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z This sort of action angered me like no other, and I told the press that every white policeman in South Africa regarded every black person as a military target. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Todd was a joker, and he’d had a run-in or two with the law, so even in the back of a military van he seemed amused. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He offered to buy his son back from the military with cows; he offered to take his son’s place, to no avail. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But it’s merely that I skip the military haircut because they would like the Mockingjay to look as much like the girl in the arena as possible at the anticipated surrender. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Jahrling, a civilian, had decided to notify the military chain of command. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “This isn’t camp life, no sir! It’s military barrack life!” wrote one boy in a letter to his parents. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Everything was correctly folded and strapped in the proper military place. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But, when Arnold told them that he was to take command of the fort at West Point, the British knew they had a man who could give them the most important military post in America. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They don’t wear military uniforms but suits, like the Secret Service, and with their fashy haircuts and vicious grins, they’d fit right in at a Unite the Right rally. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Immediately after the funeral, Lincoln’s body was escorted by a military guard through the streets of Washington. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I know now that he wanted to protect us from war, but at the time, I figured he was keeping them for an uncle in the military. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z This intersection of computers, telecommunications, and the military would yield a change arguably as significant and characteristic of modern life as anything in medicine and the industrialization of food. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z And as usual, he assured Americans he was giving military leaders everything they asked for. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Lawrence appeared untroubled by the prospect of continued military oversight of the program, which was where Oppenheimer drew the line. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When Penkovsky went to trial, the KGB had assembled an airtight case, complete with pictures of him working with stolen military files. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The petition detailed Herbert's military service and explained why military veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder are worthy of compassion. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The dullness of military life, the endless repetition of duties, the standing in line to eat, to use the bathroom, to shave, served as no distraction at all. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Our complicated military involvement in the Middle East made me think once again about the dark, divisive days of the Vietnam War. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Every night, he watched the news with Milton, tracking military developments and paying close attention to the guarded statements of Henry Kissinger at the Paris peace talks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The right’s only task was to advise the military in the elaboration of new edicts and new laws. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z This was an effort to retaliate for the unprovoked attacks the military had launched on the ANC in Maseru and elsewhere and was a clear escalation of the armed struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother’s parents are dead, her brothers in Europe, one having followed the other to serve in the military, and I know nothing about how to find them. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z They cannot have the spare energy for military adventures. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z A breathless military voice whispered from the undergrowth, “Will do, old chum. See you back at the Abbey. Have a good chase now, cheerio.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Wherever the climate was warm and large groups of people assembled, whether living in established cities or in tents during military campaigns, yellow fever took its toll. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Within weeks of getting Einstein’s letter, President Roosevelt formed the Uranium Committee, a group of military leaders and scientists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was hard to believe that barely a hundred miles away was a military disaster. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z To put down the Confederate rebellion, the president required votes in Congress from men who would back the needs of the military. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z My dad had one brother, but he was older and drifted away from the family when he found work overseas doing private contracting for the military. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z It seemed weird to me that the government specifically chose the Colorado forest instead of a military base. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It was not only a display of pinpoint precision and military force, but a demonstration of the military’s loyalty to democracy, to a new government that had been freely and fairly elected. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad left the air force after he got married because he wanted to make a fortune for his family, and you couldn’t do that in the military. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z President Cleveland arrived with his vice president and a retinue of cabinet officials, senators, and military leaders and their wives, children, and friends. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Meanwhile the mob heading for the police station had been met by a detachment of military police carrying submachine guns and M-ls. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “Where are you going, sir?” cries the military sentry. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He felt prepared for the military: He’d spent a lot of time as a teenager hunting and fishing in the woods, and competing in rifle competitions near his home in rural Maryland. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z After he killed all those who might have harmed him because they were unhappy with the situation, he strengthened his power by instituting new civil and military institutions. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z A man with gray hair and a military buzz cut got out. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z And though military boot camp had been the model, it was arresting this time around to see how much it really was like prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They squatted on Indigenous lands and built towns, confident that the US military would protect them. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Years later, when other men and women who’d served in the military in the Soviet Union’s Great Patriotic War referred to their units, they’d call them by their official name or by their regiment number. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The immediate explanation is that Atahuallpa had very little information about the Spaniards, their military power, and their intent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even my father, who safeguarded his possessions with a military order and zeal, never bothered with it, considering it a colony of junk that was mine. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Colonel Cathcart was indefatigable that way, an industrious, intense, dedicated military tactician who calculated day and night in the service of himself. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Each SS Einsatzgruppe had about one thousand men, or commandos, who worked behind the military lines. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The military men began to twitch, but they stayed put. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead they were ominously dressed in military style, black boots with black pants and vests. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A lesser mind would have accepted defeat, since the odds were stacked against me, but the best military leaders always find ways to eliminate obstacles. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The evening I met Farmer, I was sitting on a second-story balcony of a military outpost, talking with U.S. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z We know what sword of Damocles hangs over his head—an electric razor for the military school crewcut Mundín would have to get. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z An idea started to form in my head, and I walked over to the shelf of books of military history next to my desk. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “But,” he brightened, “it will be more military.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I’ve encountered people I find to be shallow and hypocritical and others—teachers and military spouses and so many more—whose spirits are so deep and strong it’s astonishing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z They didn’t want people to abandon the town, because they needed to use civilians as a shield against the military. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z When they heard the Americans had the most food, they walked and hitched rides on Allied military trucks to the bombed-out city of Frankfurt, which was in the American zone. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z President Bush's order was closely based on former president Roosevelt's proclamation to try the Nazi saboteurs in a military tribunal. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Two military members of the crew immediately resigned from the expedition to rejoin their regiments. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z He joined the air force soon after he graduated from high school, and he and my grandma first met when he was stationed at a military base in San Antonio. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z A military tribunal differs from civilian court in several ways. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “It’s not a ridiculous idea because of why Dad thinks it’s a ridiculous idea. It’s a ridiculous idea because it’s military school, and because the next stop after military school is Saigon.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z A turning point though it may have been in the war, it wasn’t exactly a flawless demonstration of military prowess. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I’d thought Thorn was scary when I first saw him in his black uniform at the military academy. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z By the time Shin hit the road, defectors themselves, many of them former North Korean military and police officers, had taken over the trade and were quietly running for-profit operations. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He joined the Signal Intelligence Service early in the war and mastered the Japanese language in three months in order to join the fight to crack Japan's secret military communications. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The chaplain was passing out pieces of lucky candy and rolls of military toilet paper, and Ishmael took one of each from him chiefly because everyone else had done so. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Calling his military chiefs to Berlin, Hitler announced: “Further successes can no longer be obtained without the shedding of blood.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z This military victory eventually led to a British capitulation three years later and to freedom for the United States—and lasting fame for Washington. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z He joined the military at eighteen, but his anger and attitude got him in even more trouble there. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z As glad as I was to have my entrance into the military rescue me from the dangers of the street, I was doubly glad to be released. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Two months later, at the U.S. military base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, an army sergeant named Joseph Pesek woke up early. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Their work boots and crew cuts said military to her, but they had no familiar identifying markers — no berets, no camouflage or flag emblems. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I want to tell Day that it’s insane to head for a military city like Vegas. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “Nevertheless, island civilians must do whatever they can independent of naval and military aid to safeguard their homes and businesses against sabotage or bombing.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Certain subjects, such as politics and military history, were prohibited. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon, regular U-2 missions provided Eisenhower and the CIA with razor-sharp images of military bases, missile launching pads, and more. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Combined with wedge-shaped cuneiform writing, scene after scene of these wall carvings scrupulously detail military exploits. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z With shells exploding all around, the bus sped to a military airbase and stopped in front of a complex that had once been General Westmoreland’s headquarters. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z About the time that Arcadio was named civil and military leader they had a daughter. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Before Sachs left the White House that day, Watson was already jotting down names for a committee to investigate the military applications of fission. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z We were transfixed as we listened to newsmen describe the power of that very special military unit. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But if you’re surrounded by people who say ‘I want mine now,’ you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then listen carefully. You’ll have to remember this. Go to Paddington Station—” With a sort of military precision that astonished him, she outlined the route that he was to follow. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He had come to prepare for his departure, with three others, for military training in the People’s Republic of China; we had renewed the contacts that Walter had made back in 1952. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The military term didn’t sound right coming out of Master Artemis’s mouth. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I began turning the pages, filled with photos of rivers and rice fields and men in military uniforms. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Even Clara, who had never before been interested in such things, began to talk about Prince Aidan, who was in the far south leading a military campaign. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Ihe sylvan fields, forests, and shores had been mowed down, paved over, and built up with roads, bridges, hospitals, boatyards, jails, and military bases, cities in and of themselves. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z MK’s first car bomb attack took place in May of 1983, and was aimed at an air force and military intelligence office in the heart of Pretoria. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We had girls from military families, girls from immigrant families, a teen mom, a girl who’d lived in a homeless shelter. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Old military gentleman—real Army look about him. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Bill turned up the television and watched as some senator complained about the military budget. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z What followed was one of the biggest disasters in all of American military history. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z There were major-league stakes: intellectual and scientific, financial, and, less often discussed, military. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z At that time, the military was experimenting with dive-bombing tactics for heavy bombers. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z There, with the full weight of its military power in evidence, Blue Team issued an eight-point ultimatum to Van Riper, the eighth point being the demand to surrender. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He had supplied them with hand-held short-wave radios that operated on a military band. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We were hustled onto a Dakota, a large military transport plane that had seen better days. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Philippines, jeepneys are old military jeeps covered with trinkets or decked out in different themes. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z The military response was automatic, like the reflexes of a clam. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The McMahon Bill excluded the military from control of atomic energy, except as the technology was directly applicable to weapons, propulsion, and other military needs. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The son of a career Air Force officer, Beck had spent his childhood shuttling from one military base to another before landing in Wichita Falls to attend college. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Here are three I noticed in just a few days of reading: The senator plans to introduce legislation next week that fixes a critical flaw in the military’s handling of assault cases. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But the nations of Europe that were occupied by the Germans were still fully under their military control. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The first of the three is-phrases, is brutally targeting civilians, is the most deeply embedded one; it is part of a relative clause that modifies third-rate Serbian military. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I’ve played with a lot of the Capitol’s weapons in training, but none designed for military combat. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Eventually, the lady calls out some stuff about boarding first class and military personnel. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z As Lawrence became more interested in the military applications of nuclear research, he grew more dismayed at the lack of progress under the dead hand of the Uranium Committee. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Because of the Korean War, Congress had just lowered the minimum age for military service to eighteen and a half, so Lawrence was drafted at sixteen. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z They were, without a doubt, the strangest reinforcements in Roman military history. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z After building up his country’s military, Hitler set into motion his plan to take over Europe. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Every day, the Germans came looking for men to load coal into the military trains. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z One flight landed her in jail when she touched down in Ecuador with a military bomber meant for Peru. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Jackie was one of the only American women to fly military jets and had even been the first woman to break the sound barrier—flying faster than the speed known as Mach 1—in 1953. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z After leaving the military, he went into the engineering and construction business in Colorado before branching into other industries, and eventually became a multimillionaire. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Do I need to alert the president and ask him to authorize a preemptive military strike?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The Bolivian military aided the incursion by hunting down the Siriono and throwing them into what were, in effect, prison camps. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Someday I wanted to be inducted into the military too, draped in the Republic’s dark robes. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z In 1896 he gave up his German citizenship to avoid military conscription and entered the Zurich Polytechnic Institute on a four-year course designed to churn out high school science teachers. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z No one knew if it was the work of the military, as the neighbors said, or of the neighbors, as the military said. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We would learn how to execute military commands and repeat our drill and ceremony so many times that “right face,” “left face,” and “parade rest” became as familiar as our own names. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z We pass a military truck heading in the opposite direction from us, but other than that there are very few cars on the road. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Barack had kicked things off earlier in the year with a government-wide audit, asking each agency to find new ways to support military families. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She helped military families and defense workers find suitable places to live, played the piano during the USO’s rollicking singalongs, and coordinated a calendar of Girl Scout troop meetings and military rallies. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z When war is continuous there is no such thing as military necessity. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Rome would supply military forces, collect taxes, exploit resources, and have the deciding vote in any disputes. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z A lot of the Negro girls’ combat schools are in old plantation houses, while the boys’ combat schools are in abandoned military barracks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He kept it as orderly and spotless as a military barracks. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The excessively hot and cramped conditions, coupled with the fact that some of the toughest schools in the military take place at Fort Benning, have earned the base the nickname “the land that God forgot.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Once, the military invaded her barrack without knocking, shouting and demanding to know if they were hiding “contraband.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z In May of that year, Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, was killed in his hiding place in Abbottabad, just a stone’s throw away from our military academy. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z As York learned later from General Andrew Goodpaster, Eisenhower’s military attache, his request had prompted the president to reflect that “the whole thing is crazy; something simply must be done about it.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z With his head lowered, his military haircut made a sharp black arrow pointing down. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Any Japanese defeat was too embarrassing for the military leaders to admit to their immediate superiors, much less to their divine emperor. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z With men being absorbed into the military services, with women already in demand by eager employers, the labor market was as exhausted as the war workers themselves. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It presupposed a high level of military discipline and an awesome degree of obedience by subordinates to their lawful superiors It assumed that wars had a beginning and an end. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z These were run by the Communist League of Youth, or Komsomol, which sponsored clubs called Osoaviakhim that gave military training to the Soviet Union’s young people. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It is up to people like me—documentarians of the military—to report them. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It turned out they were soldiers who worked with military scout dogs and lived on the far side of the base. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The others wear stiffly pressed SS and military uniforms. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Gene Johnson, the Ajax of this biological war, paced back and forth across the loading dock among a pile of camouflaged military trunks—his stockpile of gear from Kitum Cave. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I began to accept invitations to share my story at churches, synagogues, schools, and political, military, civic, and philanthropic organizations, locally and across the United States and Canada. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Under military rule, the number of people with chronic malnutrition, tuberculosis, and measles jumped dramatically. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z There were other times when I’d be awestruck by the white magnolias blooming outside, the everyday bustle of government business, the majesty of a military welcome. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z At this juncture, the imposing figure of Hermann Goring strode onto the platform, outfitted in a spectacular white military uniform. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Lifton found that many vets, like Scruggs, believed when your country asked you to serve, you had a patriotic obligation to join the military. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “I didn’t let them grow up. I taught them useless things like ancient military strategy. They didn’t even know how to go to the store and buy rice!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Farther down the wall, a tall black man in an elegant colonial military uniform stood on top of a jungle mountain. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Alec roared and sat up straight, years of military training snapping him instantly awake. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z In the military, brilliant generals are said to possess "coup d’oeil”—which, translated from the French, means "power of the glance”: the ability to immediately see and make sense of the battlefield. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “I knew that after all the protests,” he later wrote, “American public opinion would be seriously divided by any military escalation of the war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I mean, I knew Westover was a military school and all, but the decorations seemed like overkill. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Hampton Roads had become the embodiment of what Cold War president Dwight D. Eisenhower would a decade later dub the “military- industrial complex.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She had tried to get permission through Don Apolinar Moscote, but he had lost all authority in the face of the military omnipotence. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She tried to balance military discipline with human kindness to help the young women of the 588th manage enormous physical and emotional stress. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I knew exact instances when he’d consulted his wife about military strategy. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z He came up with a new idea: Instead of relying on officers to gather military intelligence, he would do what the Sons of Liberty had done in Boston. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They do not explain why the US military waged a ground war against Indigenous nations for more than a century after that, and why conflict continues today in the courts of the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I suppose we should have been flattered that the government thought our nascent military ability was sophisticated enough to successfully eliminate their head of state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But President Eisenhower had insisted that the nation’s first foray into space be presented as a peaceful effort, rather than an explicitly military operation that risked triggering a dangerous retaliation by the Soviet Union. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It produced concrete-reinforcing bars, barbed wire, nails, and steel for cars, refrigerators, and military ships. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Everyone else is dressed in 13’s dark gray military jumpsuits, even Haymitch, although he seems unhappy about the snugness of his collar. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Behind them, the heads of Serra's Illustrian houses stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the city’s top military brass. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She was already a military officer as well as a national hero who’d been awarded the country’s highest honor. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Hundreds of thousands of African American men and women worked long hours in defense factories throughout the nation to supply the military with arms, provisions, and more. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He briefed us on the detachment’s military training, political education, and valor in the field. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On the morning of November 3, Election Day, Johnson’s advisors secretly met to discuss how the American military could most effectively come to the aid of South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Fencing didn’t originate as a sport; it was a method of defense used by soldiers in the military and against enemies at war. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He rolled along with every inexplicable order from his superiors, every foolish act of his inferiors, and every abrasive personality that military life could throw at an officer. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z There’s a military unit, for example—they look like little more than kids. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Rome Divided Instead of launching military campaigns to gain territory, Octavian and Mark Antony focused on attacking one another. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z During the war, five million men had left their jobs and joined the military, leaving women to fill those vacant jobs and raise their children as well. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Instead, he spotted an old pair of cotton shoes and a worn military uniform. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Instead, a group known as the Big Six—the country’s three top political and three top military leaders—met to argue and hammer out decisions. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The beginning of all true wisdom concerning the Farewell Address is that Washington’s core insights were firmly grounded in the lessons he had learned as America’s premier military and civilian leader during the revolutionary era. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z As the war approached its peak, every single American military airplane in production was based fundamentally—and in many cases in specific detail—upon the research results and recommendations of the NACA. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He understood that they were protecting their territory, just like he was trained to do in the military. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z And every day my Government gives me a count of corpses created by military science in Vietnam. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But while in the past she’d been a civilian working on the edges of the military, now she made a positive decision to follow a military career herself. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z A week or so after Joe got home from the military, a tall, skinny neighborhood kid named Ivy walked up to him with a knife and asked if he wanted to start something. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Actually, I’d only seen my grandma like two times since my pop died and we all went to his military funeral together. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I wonder how many girls are running after him, a decorated military officer. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z As an analyst for the Rand Corporation, a think tank focused on military and international issues, he had been granted permission to conduct research at the Pentagon, home of the United States Department of Defense. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Under the circumstances, scientists’ fealty to military and political orthodoxy trumped their honest scientific judgment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The hare had brought a touch of military efficiency to bear upon the exercise. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z His father was a military man with a steady job. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The military presence would be thick and constant. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Obviously they did not want to go to the regular clinic to have an Army nurse take their blood: that would be a tip-off to the military authorities that they thought they’d been exposed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn't America's military strength that he worried about. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I stare down at the dead body of a soldier clad in military black, a knife still protruding from his chest. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Priority number one was to gain congressional approval for expanded military action in Vietnam, if deemed necessary. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “We were instructed about military formations and how soldiers move in the countryside unseen. We learned how to shoot, throw hand grenades, and how to storm trenches.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z According to some estimates, almost half the scientists and high technologists on Earth are employed full- or part-time on military matters. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the 1940s, the United States had kept a draft in place, requiring all men ages eighteen to twenty-four to register for military service. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In the spring of 1953 a large British team, organized with the righteous zeal and overpowering resources of a military campaign, became the third expedition to attempt Everest from Nepal. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “I'm thinking of military school,” I said again. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z That is, in military terminology, I would employ subterfuge. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And all these things were permitted by their military institutions and gave them a means of escaping hardships and dangers, as was mentioned. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Employees stayed alert to catch a glimpse of the Mercury Seven, who had gone from anonymous military men to among the most recognizable faces in the world. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Dearie me, old lad, no need to be so touchy! Merely making a military observation, y’know.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z With a quick handshake, they were informed, “You are now no longer soldiers. You’re military veterans.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I was the one who said that joining the military would be a symbolic stand, anyway, against the Nazis. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z No way will the military let this slide. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The government wanted to force military service on the men—and to send them back into the Nuba Mountains to continue the campaign of terror. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z But after a few years, he realized he didn’t like the rules and constriction of any rigid organization—not the Communist Party, and not the military. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Herbert became one of thousands of combat veterans who end up in jail or prison after completing their military service. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It is the instrument that men played in military marching bands. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z This was a military model, loud, with a great fan anchored perpendicularly to the rear. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She remembered the last thing Papa had said when the military police took him away. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z From 4 P.M. into the evening, I was lectured on military science by Colonel Tadesse, who was also assistant commissioner of police and had been instrumental in foiling a recent coup attempt against the emperor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This was, in large degree, because he knew how to march and had other military training that could keep us out of trouble. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She ran her finger along the volumes of military history, lingered at The Second Punic War, and stopped at The Reason Why. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z But as Wohlstetter points out, that wasn’t because the American military didn’t know enough about Japan’s intentions. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The physical conditions were overlaid with military regimentation far beyond anything imposed at the Rad Lab, even after its absorption into the bomb project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In another room someone with a comb and a piece of toilet paper was trying to keep tune with the military music which was still issuing from the telescreen. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Among other tendencies to be noted, Texas is a military nation. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The region was ruled by the Duke of Florence, Cosimo de’ Medici, who had also been crowned Duke of Tuscany by the Pope in 1570 for his part in successful military campaigns against the Moors. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z There was a lot of talk all at once, about the Russian military hospital where they’d all found work, hoping to be evacuated with the army. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It was straight out of some military medical training course. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z "I quickly jumped in," Blake recalled, "and was driven at high speed to a safe flat in the neighborhood of Karlshorst," the main Soviet military and KGB compound in East Berlin. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A few days later, on August 3, the generals at the military tribunal reached a verdict: death for all eight saboteurs. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z In Russia in 1998, there were no women flying in either military or commercial aviation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The Grants have been married for more than twenty years and have endured many long separations due to military life. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Whoever had prospects on the outside, and the energy to go, was leaving, relocating, or entering military service. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The military ambulances took off, wailing into the still newborn night with the dead and the wounded. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Haitians had been hopeful after Baby Doc Duvalier and his secret police had been chased from power, yet the military leaders of the new junta were even more brutal. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z It was reflective of a larger spirit of self-sufficiency and pride I’d seen in all parts of the military. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “We’re putting together a team of mental health and military professionals to come up with a counterattack. I, personally, feel optimistic that he’ll make a full recovery.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Even the dearly loved spectacular sports are run almost like military operations. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z "We spent that night burning our codes and secret documents in a sheltered corner of the garden in the hope that the bonfire would not attract the attention of the North Korean military." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The military presence, one commentator was saying, “would soon be overwhelming.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z That was so the military could lock us in, quell any rebellion. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Her teacher had taught the class that one because they would all be boarding a military ship soon. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He loved his father, but sometimes he wished he wasn’t so—so military. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z For many young men accustomed to a civilian life with freedom and personal privacy, military life was tough and there was a lot of grumbling. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z She did not know any with thirty strokes, but she knew the kanji for “military ship,” which had twenty-one. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z King George put Massachusetts under military rule and made General Gage governor. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But mainstream figures in science and the military disdained RW as ineffective, impractical, and immoral. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In World War II, an extraordinary calculating machine commissioned by the U.S. military, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, could, each second, perform around 350 multiplications or 5,000 simple additions. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z South Vietnam had an enormous military, but the forces were spread out and ineffective. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Blake turned around and saw an American officer, spreading word quietly to the other American military men in the church sanctuary. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z His father had been a military man, his mother a homemaker, solidly middle class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I ask Kelton, hoping that his extensive knowledge of useless military factoids will come in handy. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z From the forests and fisheries and farmlands of an Arcadian state dawned a powerful military capital, a nerve center that had welcomed residents by the hundreds of thousands since the start of the conflict. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z My family was kept in a military hostel near the hospital and had little access to news from the outside world, since the hostel had no Internet connection. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Flags snapped in the bitterly cold wind, and military bands marched and played. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z A score of genuinely brilliant military leaders who also confronted a superior enemy force—Hannibal, Robert E. Lee, and Napoleon come to mind—were eventually defeated because they presumed that victory meant winning battles. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z My father had never served in the military and could not march in step. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z That legislation carved a huge exception to the Posse Comitatus Act, the Civil War-era law prohibiting the use of the military for civilian policing. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Pizarro’s military advantages lay in the Spaniards’ steel swords and other weapons, steel armor, guns, and horses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I kept my military Bible with me every day. My favorite was the twenty-seventh psalm. ‘ Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z By the end of the fourth day at military school, I had run away four times. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Around the time of Christ, a small village on its northeast periphery named Teotihuacan emerged as a military power. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Tutsis then used their control of the military to wipe out whole villages of Hutus. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Not until the First World War did the military dominance of cavalry finally end. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We had never contemplated the intervention of foreign military forces. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But this didn't count as military jet flying, either. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z I look past his eyes, it’s a single room, the bed’s made up, stripped down, military. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z During the Civil War, several Southern military officers, as well as a handful of officials in the Confederate Secret Service, considered plots against Lincoln. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But when Lilya tried to sign up for military duty, she too was rejected. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Late at night on August 13, 1961, East German police and military units flooded the streets of Berlin's Eastern sector. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The military must have requisitioned all the lorries. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Sager did have a military record, honorable discharge, lit-erally a Boy Scout as a kid and now a troop leader. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The streets are deserted, except for speeding military vehicles. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z There, Pax caught the lingering scent of the military transport caravan from the day before, but no other traffic had passed since then. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Aucamp was a short, heavyset fellow in a suit rather than a military uniform. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not the centrally administered military power that term conjures. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “But would you say that, sir, even in the light of General Peckem’s recent memorandum on the subject of appropriate military attire in combat areas?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He thought it made us look friendly and less suspicious, but in doing so it left us open for a customs check by any military and police patrol boat. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z At that time there was not a single telescope in the whole of the Netherlands capable of 20X magnification—and yet the Dutch had plenty of fine telescopes perfectly adequate for military and naval use. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Knowing him, he’d probably send me right to military school or some kind of boot camp, like Scared Straight. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Over the years military planners have arrived at a rule of thumb which dictates that functional fighting units cannot be substantially larger than 200 men,” Dunbar writes. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time, most high-level American code breakers worked for the Army and the Navy, where they focused on a handful of top-grade military and diplomatic ciphers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z From the Oval Office, Nixon announces US military forces have left Vietnam as agreed in the Paris Peace Accords, March 29, 1973. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “The military hospitals still pay. Not that my pay will be enough for the rent, sha.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z And then General Hajienestis gives his only military order of the past few weeks: “Up anchors. Reverse engines. Full steam ahead.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z That night, Cypriot military personnel reported a mysterious malfunctioning of their radar screens. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The North Korean government had decided that the camp, with its high-voltage fence and factories that churned out military uniforms, glassware, and cement, needed a reliable local source of electricity, and fast. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Penkovsky also gave the CIA and MI6 a wealth of information about the Soviet leadership, including both rumors and concrete information about political squabbles inside the Kremlin and the Soviet military hierarchy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He had never served as a governor, as Jefferson had, or as a military commander, as Washington had. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z How could she force me into a military school before I was even a teenager? The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The military was going to make him a bombardier. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z For reasons never explained, Shin was transferred to the camp’s garment factory, a crowded, chaotic, stressful work site where two thousand women and five hundred men made military uniforms. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Leon didn’t even notice when the tuition bills from the military school stopped coming. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a battle between two perfectly opposed military philosophies. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Frank remembered the morning he’d opened this door for the military officer who had told him about his mother. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z One harassed man, made crafty by desperation, told the mother that he had inside information that the military bands led the soldiers into action and invariably were the first ones killed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The Communist Party had secretly reconstituted itself underground and was now considering forming its own military wing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Zoya Malkova and two of her friends visited the local military recruitment officer at least three times, begging him to assign them to combat duty. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z On September 1, the pilot of a Soviet interceptor jet launched air-to-air missiles at Korean Air Lines flight 007, which Soviet ground crews had mistaken for a hostile military aircraft. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Specifically, nothing was to be published that was “calculated to weaken the power of the Reich at home or abroad, the community will of the German people, its military spirit, or its culture and economy.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Even she, who knew nothing of military strategy or journalistic convention, understood a euphemism for retreat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Nine black teenagers trying to integrate all-white Central High School had turned the states capital city into a military battleground. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Father Nicanor tried to impress the military authorities with the miracle of levitation and had his head split open by the butt of a soldier’s rifle. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Because, beyond the military disadvantage losing a Mockingjay entails, I am broken. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Like a military commander in battle, I turned and shouted to the marchers, ‘Rrrreeeggroup!’ Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Calling upon the Fruit of Islam, as the military wing of the Nation was known, she stood by while the young men pulled out the wooden commode from the rickety shack. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z From his own experiences in Vietnam and his reading of the German military theorist Carl von Clausewitz, Van Riper became convinced that war was inherently unpredictable and messy and nonlinear. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Like a military operation, it had many troops but only one commander. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z That the military was accountable, reasonable, and was kept in check by concentric circles of regulations, laws, common sense, common decency. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “I bought everything at Dyess Air Force Base. Everything is cheap for a military widow. No taxes.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He was the head of South Africa’s equivalent of the CIA, and was also involved with military intelligence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After Parker finished his military service, he used the GI Bill to earn a degree in civil engineering from the Colorado School of Mines—as far from the South as he could get. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The German military gave special performances, showing off its tanks, machine guns, naval mine throwers, and other artillery weapons. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z First he had written Miss Lavinia—Johnny knew he was dancing attendance on her—a rude note bluntly declining her invitation to a frolic which on the fifteenth of December would follow a military concert. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Or consider the Moche, leaders of a military state that overran much of the northern coast, submerging the identities of its victims in its own. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There was no military history in my family, but for them, as for many immigrant families, American heroes—and the schools they attended—carried a certain cachet. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Rita became a prizewinning math student, and Kuda, to no one’s surprise, was possessed by his great-great-grand- uncle, a famous fighter pilot, and was taught military strategy from the inside out. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Part of the base had served as a military prison over the years. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Certainly she must have noticed their military bearing, the high polish of their shoes, their vivid neckties. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “It’s really nice to have you people over here,” Johnson said to his military chiefs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Colonel Smith had indeed marched on to Concord, possessed the town, destroyed such military stores as had not yet been hidden. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He said that the central air force headquarters had already received more than a hundred letters from young women begging to be admitted to military schools. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z She wore a black military sweater with silver eagles on the shoulder boards—she had recently made full colonel. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The owner of Microbiological Associates —a military man named Samuel Reader—knew nothing about science, but his business partner, Monroe Vincent, was a researcher who understood the potential market for cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z There's a flare of military music, and then Adolf Hitler's voice comes over the radio. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z At the military school where he prepped for Princeton, and played a very good end on the football team, no one had made him race-conscious. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z A devoted and talented writer with an eye for detail, her secret diary, which she began at fourteen, detailed her observations and encounters with the political, military, and diplomatic elite. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He also carried a military title, thus outranking Burr with his honorary designation as “General Hamilton,” based on his last appointment, that of inspector general of the New Army in 1799. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He explained cheerily that he’d once hoped to become an agent after leaving the military, but that given the injury he was now figuring out a new plan. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He dressed in fatigue pants, a military issue T-shirt, and combat boots. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I clasped my fingers behind my back, and ended up looking like some keyed-up military man. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Her middle son in military uniform, smiling and holding a baby. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Those northern Maori tribes with the earliest access to Europeans thereby became the first tribes to acquire muskets, which gave them a big military advantage over all the other tribes lacking muskets. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But, Hall wondered, how does one go about handing military secrets to the Soviet Union? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Therefore, as was said, a prince who does not understand military matters, besides other misfortunes, cannot be esteemed by his own soldiers, nor can he trust them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z A photo of the general, dashing in full military outfit, shaking hands with King Hussein of Jordan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He knew the satisfaction that came from fulfilling employment and loved the sense of mission and camaraderie that the military gave him. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z People were already forming military units on their own, and the only organization that had the muscle to lead them was the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Byrdsong was a Newport News native who served in World War II in the Montford Point Marines, the first group of black men permitted to join that previously restricted branch of the American military. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z His hair was the same color, cut military style. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Another man in a military uniform with his back to me is standing behind Mr. Washburn’s chair. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Now it was a military post, and he was a captive. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He ultimately agreed that a military campaign was inevitable. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On the question of deployment versus demonstration, “we can propose no technical demonstration likely to bring an end to the war; we see no acceptable alternative to direct military use.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I played right into the hands of a military spy. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Mustafa counseled us not to neglect the political side of war while planning the military effort. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought for a moment of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” but decided it wasn’t a good idea to invoke the military. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z With the support of people like Cadet Captain Hill and the others in my chain of command and on the faculty, I’d actually started to enjoy military school. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Considered by many to be one of the best military autobiographies in history, Grant’s life story was a bestseller. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z In 1945, for instance, AT&T began introducing a kind-of mobile phone service, derived from military radio technology, in a few metropolitan markets in the United States. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I was ten then, and I watched the military shuttling the cleaner citizens to new settlements and gated communities. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z A military tribunal is still a controversial issue. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z When Henry Allen joined the military, it never occurred to him that he would end up serving as a machine gunner in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z In truth, Father, I am so stirred up by the thought of my first military duty—even if it is only reviewing border troops—that I hardly hear my good mother. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The Allied bombing of German cities remains a controversial subject, especially in areas where no military or industrial sites were targeted. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It's louder and higher-pitched than the others because military trucks get first priority. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Because of its potential importance for navigation, the whole business of obtaining accurate star positions was of key importance in the late seventeenth century, both commercially and because of its military implications. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The military wagons must all funnel into a narrow line and cross one at a time. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The flies began a strange, repetitive drone, which rose and dropped with a harsh, military rhythm. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z ‘But as soon as the first shot is fired, no man of military age can possibly get out of Boston. They’ll see to it. It’s now or never.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He assured his audience that as soon as the enemy sanctuaries had been eliminated and NVA military supplies destroyed, American troops would be withdrawn. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The bus pulled into the courtyard of a military regiment. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A Women were not allowed to enlist in the military during the Civil War. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s check your military knowledge,” Bull said, walking up to Ben. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The country’s dictator, Adolf Hitler, had broken international treaties and built up his military force. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Leo gave the helm to Coach Hedge again, after making the satyr promise he would not steer them to the nearest military base “for fun.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The British command was well aware that their military could not defeat the Cherokees in their own country even with irregular warfare. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z He simply wasn’t sure that the United States had the military strength to take on so many formidable foes. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z A glance at a military map shows why. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He was so successful that when some anti-British Indians abducted him the colonists sent out a military expedition to get him back. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Some guessed that Los Alamos housed a secret military project. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The armoire looks like a military shell went through it. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He had to investigate the assassination, capture the conspirators, and organize a military tribunal to try them. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z As we watched the men ride around the arena, Frankie explained that Cossacks formed the military might of the Russian Empire, where they were required to serve for twenty years. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Here is the tissue I used to blot my tears the night he told me he would be volunteering for the military when he turned seventeen. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Johnson griped, “That military genius, McNamara, has gone dovish on me.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The 122nd Air Group’s limited military career so far hadn’t done a thing to reduce that thirst for battle. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It took Ben a moment to realize what the misalignment was, but he had forgotten about the military’s allegiance to symbolism. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Ptolemy was a headstrong boy, not a military mastermind. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Militsa was a career military officer like Marina, an Air Force Academy graduate who’d already taken part in several Moscow air shows and even had some training as an attack pilot. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Young lieutenant delivering military mail: days alone across an enormous white plain. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a military craft, with three men aboard: a soldier, a man with a video camera, and one holding a microphone and a notebook. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z It was the biggest military operation I’d ever seen at camp. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Finally one of the highest-ranking black officers in the American military, Brigadier General George Price, spoke. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z In fact, the Soviet military tracked Powers from the moment he had crossed the USSR's border. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Dad taught me. It’s military. Gathering strategic evidence.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z But as disturbed as I was by these casualties, I knew that such accidents were the inevitable consequence of the decision to embark on a military struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And there he was, face-to-face with the most legendary military mind of his generation. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He stood beneath her window one evening and played his military march and his waltz just as she was taking tea with a group of female friends. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Barack, for his part, had spent plenty of time listening to laid-off factory workers, young military veterans trying to manage lifelong disabilities, mothers fed up with sending their kids to poorly functioning schools. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z One daughter married an army general who for a time governed Formosa, and it was this uncle- general who encouraged Papa to enroll in a military school. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z She persuaded the czar to let her fly for Russia as a military reconnaissance pilot, scouting out the best direction for soldiers on the ground to fire their guns. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z One year later, the importance of the airplane to US defense was underscored when the Army Air Corps was elevated to the status of an independent branch of the military: the United States Air Force. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Twelve days later, the Union military tracked him down in Virginia, where he was fatally shot. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z They made Chess think more of military flags, as if some invading army had taken over and wanted everyone to know. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z In the middle of the night, a group of KGB and military leaders had arrested Gorbachev at his vacation dacha and announced a state of emergency. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z This had caused trouble for dozens of places: some had been put off limits by the military; some had lost their state or city licenses. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She picked him out from among all the generals and military men. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet no matter how careful they were, the military still saw them as a security risk. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “He can’t be here unless he’s got the count too,” said a man whose old blue military cap marked him as a former member of the Everican Navy. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He understood that in spite of his present title of civil and military leader of the town, Don Apolinar Moscote was once more a figurehead. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Clips of military vehicles rolling past as reporters talked about “hopes for a peaceful demonstration.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Most of the military hospitals were managed by a civilian organization called the Sanitary Commission. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “Jews. I thought we couldn’t be in the military.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He climbed the wooden pole, tapped into the electrical wires, powered up his radio, and sent information on Ger- man military movements to British intelligence officers in London. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was commissioned, less than a year from that moment, I was told I was one of the youngest officers in the entire United States military. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z There was a powerful military organization called the Thought Police in Japan. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z But when the Japanese took over their island, our enemies made it into another military fortress. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They called it Operation Hannibal, after one of the greatest military strategists in history. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He once vandalized the side of a military building. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z We thought military intervention was a necessary step for the return to a healthy democracy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Since its establishment in 1917, the laboratory’s operations had been concentrated on the campus of the Langley Field military base on the bank of Hampton’s Back River. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z For some, the tests and training were easy to deal with compared to the attitudes of the military and the male cosmonauts. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Mao offered moral support and—more important—the promise of military backing to his North Korean neighbors. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “The greatest military achievement in all history,” praised Douglas MacArthur, a top American general. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She had felt it ever since she saw him come in protected by a noisy military retinue, which turned the bedrooms inside out until they were convinced there was no danger. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z For some in my chalk, this was the first genuine military activity they would engage in. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Then one of the military guards spots us and locks eyes. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Lawrence had mentioned the possibility that he might look to the army for the funding necessary to complete the cyclotron, even if a government grant would mean devoting the machine chiefly to military research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Several other military jeeps cross our intersection, and I see the blank faces of their soldiers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z His interest was in interest rates, and he hadn’t given military economics much thought. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z She had lost Arcadio, not when he had put on his military uniform, but from the beginning. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In the first class Teacher Zhang had told us that in order to integrate all aspects of our study with the revolution and to prepare for war, we would learn military and political terms first. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a strange sort of military man, easygoing and casually brilliant. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "This will take double the troops and military supplies," whispers Helmuth. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z It had come to this: American military were shooting down unarmed Americans. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He was almost grateful for some military activity to distract him from his dilemma. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z While we had heard some talk of German military defeats on the various fronts, we were not sure if they were credible. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s been a lot of discussion among scholars and military experts as to why Stalin’s government allowed this to happen. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I, meanwhile, reached out to the country’s most powerful CEOs, generating commitments to hire a significant number of veterans and military spouses. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Documents in my handwriting showed that I had left the country illegally, had arranged for military training for our men, and had been behind the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At 10:00 every night, “Taps” was played by a military bugler in the main parade area. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z They were unshaven but still military looking in the early morning. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z |
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