Word: nimrod
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...Nobody's stopping them, nimrod. Is this over...
While the tougher tactics have eased frustrations within the ranks, some officers are worried that their troops' skills and discipline are being undermined. "There is a professional problem," says Nimrod, 34, commander of a Golani battalion. "I'm not doing what I'm trained to do. I'm not training soldiers to do what we should be doing." Like his men, Nimrod feels the stress of trying to obey his superiors. "As part of an explicit policy, I explicitly order my men to beat people, to beat them hard," he says. "I accept it because if we don't beat...
...JUDGE ruled that everybody even remotely connected with the trial was a nimrod, and that Baby M should be put to death so that no one would have to deal with the whole muddled issue. Then he said that he was just kidding, and that in fact the mother would have to give up her baby in exchange for some money. While many of the more intelligent spectators waited around after the judge's decision to find out if he was still kidding, the world rejoiced immediately...
...phone by the empty bed beside me which kept on ringing with calls for someone named "Herman." The telephone lay just out of my reach, waiting silently for the precise moment of my dream when the girl comes in. Then it would ring, I would jump, and some nimrod on the other end would ask for "Herman" or hang up at the sound of my enraged greeting. I thought maybe the nurses were calling the number and then laughing hysterically when I answered. I asked for the extra phone to be disconnected, but it wasn't in the rules...
...children of war, Paul, Nimrod, Kim Seng and Pham, who proved there is hope...