Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vice President Walter Mondale was equally enthusiastic. Sorensen was esteemed for both his mind and his morality. He was also an early backer of Carter for President, raising funds and tapping talent among liberals who had serious reservations about the Georgian. Beyond that, Sorensen was seen as a good soldier who would carry out Carter's instructions at the CIA. Moreover, some Carter staffers reckoned that a liberal like Sorensen might be better able to defend the agency against criticism from the left. Said a close Carter adviser after the scheme had misfired: "What the hard-core conservatives...
...almost 1.5 million-member Village Scouts. Sponsored by the royal family, the scouts preach loyalty to King, country and Buddhism. Besides seeking local allies like the scouts, field commanders claim to have learned from the failures of the U.S. and the Thieu regime in Viet Nam. "If the Thai soldier is corrupt," says an army major, "then the Thais will lose the same way Laos and Viet Nam lost...
...Daddy" has challenged to a debate; former British Prime Minister Edward Heath, who has been asked to conduct a band; Japanese ex-Lieut. Hiroo Onoda, who spent 30 years in the Philippine jungle before he discoverd that World War II was over. A personal appearance by such a dedicated soldier, says Amin, would "contribute greatly to raising the morale of Uganda's army...
...came home emotionally bent by the war remarks: "They talk about those 50,000 boys that were killed there, but I bet half that number would have been killed if they'd been at home, killed in automobiles." Emerson used to show people a photograph of a wounded soldier on a stretcher, touching his eyes with his hands. She writes: ''A lot of people said they had seen it all on M*A*S*H and they were reminded of how much they liked Hawkeye, how cute Radar is ..." In any case, as a judge in Tennessee...
...Digger" is a slang term first used in the 1850s to describe a miner in the Australian gold fields. It was popular in World War I as a nickname for an Australian soldier, and today is sometimes employed as a generic name for any Australian...