Word: regiments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...somehow good-natured disasters-banishment, war, scourging, mass slaughter, piracy, the Spanish Inquisition, slavery, concubinage-until at last the wanderers come to El Dorado. Leading pink sheep laden with glimmering ingots, Candide and Cunegonde arrive with their innocence reasonably intact, although such setbacks as her rape by a regiment of Bulgarian soldiers have left Cunegonde with a somewhat supple interpretation of purity...
...soldier, Svejk, goes through the war doing everything he's told, but managing to get it just wrong enough to stay far from the front lines where he might have to do some fighting. It's hard for the army to shoot someone who turns up miles behind his regiment, beaming, innocent, full of patriotic fervor, and consumed by contrition because somehow he can't seem to find it. Only on rare occasions, with other ordinary soldiers, does Svejk let his real opinions show, and even on these rare occasions he usually allows himself not openness but sarcasm--long accounts...
Rumbling down the dark pavement near midnight, four olive drab trucks pulled up to the headquarters gate of Argentina's 10th Armored Cavalry Regiment of Azul, 170 miles southwest of Buenos Aires. A guard routinely challenged the lead truck-and was cut down by a hail of bullets. By the time government troops could counterattack, 60 to 70 "soldiers," all in army fatigues and full battle gear, had stormed into the officers' quarters. They held their position for seven hours, long enough to kill Base Commander Colonel Camilo Gay and his wife. Then they took Lieut. Colonel Jorge...
...Soviet army general who was arrested during the Stalin purge of 1938, sentenced to 15 years in the icy Kolyma concentration camp but later "rehabilitated" to fight the Nazis; in Moscow. Gorbatov joined the army and fought successfully in the civil war, rising to command a cavalry regiment. Following his arrest for "liberalism," along with many other army leaders, he refused to sign a false confession even after being tortured. Reinstated in 1941, he eventually commanded the Third Army in its march on Berlin...
...ceremony itself, performed by the Most Rev. Michael Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was eloquently simple. There was a flourish of trumpets from the Queen's Dragoon Guards, Mark's regiment. Then, while the guests sang Glorious Things of Thee Art Spoken, the princess strolled down the aisle on her father's arm. Behind her followed her only attendants: Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, 9, daughter of Princess Margaret, and Anne's brother Prince Edward, also 9. She promised "to love, cherish and to obey." The groom slipped onto her finger a wedding band that had been...