Word: bivouacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about 17 days in a regular cycle, the colony moves its bivouac every night. Toward dusk one of the raiding columns loses its martial excitement, slows its pace. Then the raiders fall into a steady, plodding lockstep. At the far end of the column, up to 200 yards long, they clot together in a tight, solid mass. The news of the move spreads back to the previous bivouac. As raiders come in from forays in other directions, they turn and follow the plodding column...
Isaiah Berlin once opined that Washington is not a city: "It's more like a vast, temporary headquarters during a campaign. . . . Washington is a bivouac...
After three years in the Washington bivouac, rumpled, tubby, articulate Isaiah Berlin had left the British Embassy staff last week and gone home to London. As one of the Embassy's First Secretaries, he had for a time contributed more than any other one person to official British knowledge of the current...
...darkness. Only the sergeant was left in the room. "It's tough on them," he said. Soon the troop's armored cars, tanks and bantams (cavalry slang for jeeps), were rolling up the dark road, toward the rear. As we turned into the field where we would bivouac, the bearded sergeant said: "Well, it usually ends like this." He meant, not that it usually ended in retirement, but that any ending is an anticlimax for men who have survived the near brush of death...
...must be with me!" Then he would praise Salmon in public, whereupon Salmon would draw himself up: "Sir, I don't like to be made fun of!" During the rest pauses, super-active Randolph would think up various picnic pleasures, such as constructing a nice bivouac when all we wanted was to be left alone and lie in the grass. He never fussed about the cold, hunger, thirst, sore feet or German bullets, and only raised hell when the Partisan barber wanted to give him a shave without hot water. He smoked what the rest...