Word: marcheses
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In his quiet way, Jim shook the stodgy Observer alive. He dumfounded editorial staffers by showing up mornings at 7, imposed a strict ban on "puff" copy tied to ad accounts-long a news staple of both Charlotte papers-revived the Observer's bureau in Raleigh, the state capital...
The war they fought was a savage succession of small actions, of blundering encounters around bends in the jungle paths, of ambushes, surprise dawn attacks, endless forced marches. More than by Japanese bullets, the Marauders were brought low by mite-borne typhus, malaria, amoebic dysentery, fatigue and mental breakdowns. A...
There are humorous moments, too, but unlike Hollywood's contrived chuckles, they grow out of life-as-it-is. Little Apu watches his school-master peddle rice while drilling the quiet students; he is fascinated by a cacophonous brass band that marches through the village; he sits goggle-eyed when...
The hero (Gary Cooper) is a sort of frontier Freud who can discharge a complex almost as fast as he can trigger a six gun. He sets up as a sawbones in a gold-mining camp, and pretty soon a pretty Swiss girl (Maria Schell), survivor of a stagecoach stickup...
A certain number of men go on to advanced combat training, either in infantry, artillery, or armor--the toughest "schoolings" open to the RFA. Advanced infantry, for instance, is a continuation of basic training. The trainee fires weapons he only heard about in basic--the light machine gun, the recoiling...