Word: lined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Viscount Montgomery's line was war. Sandhurst. 3½ years with the regular Army, and active service in France in World War I were more than prep schools on the way to promotion. In marching infantry prose, his book makes it plain that when he took command of the British Eighth Army in Africa in World War II, he was ready. According to him, and to history, he made Desert Fox Rommel fight Montgomery's kind of fight, and Monty won. Was he too tidy? Did all the pieces on his chess board have to be perfectly placed...
...wished to know his tastes before giving him a post-victory lunch? Which wines did he prefer? Montgomery was addicted to water. Cigars? He did not smoke. The Russian murmured that they had some women at headquarters available for VIPs. Monty was not interested: women were not his line...
There is a considerable incentive to choose the former course, in the form of oral examinations at the end of Senior year. History and Literature is one of the few areas in which orals are given, not to determine "border-line" cases of honors awards, but to every candidate for the degree...
Starting from a tone that, in its intensity and glowing beauty was altogether appropriate to the extremely emotional Romanticism of the work, de Pasquale fully realized the poetic quality of the piece, giving the solo line character and identity. Some of his small touches were inspired; especially memorable is his sensitive treatment of the arpeggios at the close of the second movement, which were handled with subtle delicacy and grace...
This was the first time all fall that the Crimson had faced an unbalanced line attack. But it will not be the last. Princeton, of course, operates from behind a similar lineup; and during the coming week the varsity will probably have to put into effect some new defensive patterns...