Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tanks rumbling across the pontoon bridges, the Egyptians paused hardly at all, sweeping over Israel's vaunted Bar-Lev defense line anchored just beyond the east bank. They had obviously prepared well and arduously. "We trained for this mission for a long time," one wounded soldier told newsmen as he was carried back across the canal. "Each of us knew by heart what he was supposed...
...next few years were spent testing napalm and developing new uses for it. Fieser performed test burnings and explosions in the Harvard labs and occasionally outside of Soldier's Field, though the invention remained a closely guarded secret...
...have this terrible feeling that there's nothing I can do," Walzer said. "It's hard right now not to wish to be an Israeli soldier. The war, to me, is not an event in a faraway land, but a physical wound to my own body...
...Could I support the suspension of free speech and freedom of the press to aid a revolution waged for the extension of those and other rights? Could I imprison a Chilean truck-owner for endangering socialism--a socialism where there will be no prisons? Could I shoot a Portuguese soldier for a cause that seeks to outlaw war forever...
Thanks to Anouilh's vividly ironic vision, much of the evening is howlingly funny. Wallach has always possessed perfect comic pitch and he displays it again here. However, he lacks that certain panache which makes St. Pé a duelist with destiny rather than a Good Soldier Schweik taking fate's pratfalls. Jackson is an awesome virago who delivers her lines like bayonet thrusts...