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...troops on each side: blinding smoke, choking fumes, ear-shattering noise. Again and again, French cavalry attacked standing squares of British infantry and were driven off because their horses shied from crossing living barriers. But what caused the British soldiers to stand their ground? Keegan notes that they were safer in masses; to break and run was to become an easy target for French horsemen. Also, the leaders were in the thick of the fighting, where they could see their men and be seen in return. Keegan suggests that the officers' chief function was to be wounded with conspicuous...
...European Parliament after that new body's first popular election in 1978, Andreotti says, this could create a "berthing place" for their professed democratic pledges. Alongside Western European socialists and social democrats, the Communists would be smaller fish in a bigger pond where it would be safer to test their "untried propositions that are quite new in the history of Communism and have never been successfully realized in the past." For the moment, Andreotti judges, it is a mistake "to take for granted a transformation process that is barely hinted at," yet also wrong to dismiss...
...view of the fact that Big Labor played a major role in wrecking the economy of England and New York City, I would feel a lot safer if Carter and Meany were not even on speaking terms...
Wilson, speaking in favor of establishing nuclear power plants throughout the world, said that electric power produced from nuclear fission energy is less expensive, more efficient, cleaner and safer than power produced from coal or oil energy sources...
...shoot-up at Mel's Sporting Goods Store in Los Angeles in May 1974. While Patty was behind bars, her lawyers declared that she was receiving threats from S.L.A. sympathizers and argued more strenuously than ever that she should be bailed out, maintaining that she would be safer under private guard at home. Earlier this month there were reports that Patty was throwing temper tantrums in the Federal Youth Center in Pleasanton, Calif. She was also said to be upset by the attention paid her by young female prisoners, who made her a cult heroine of the left. Patty...