Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Le Carre...
...they are uncomfortable with a clandestine organization that persists in regarding the KGB as a serious threat. In this respect, Angleton's departure is reminiscent of the fate of a fictional counter-intelligence man, George Smiley, the sad hero of John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Fired during a staff shake-up at the British Secret Service, Smiley was later called back to root out a suspected "mole," or traitor, who had burrowed deeply into his old organization. The mole resembles Kim Philby, the famed British double agent. It was Angleton who provided some...
...Soldier James Bell is shocked by the all-volunteer Army's basic training [Feb. 10], minus harassment and b.s., think how this new soldier feels...
Despite his confidence, success, and luck-the only major damage he has suffered was a broken bone in his right foot and a severe skate cut to his left hand two seasons ago-Bernie Parent is ridden by repressed fear on the ice. Like a soldier under fire, he finds fear real and physical, and he has to fight it off. "It's like a dream," he told TIME Correspondent Robert Lewis last week. "It comes and goes. When I'm tired, I might start thinking about getting injured and about my family and kids. Thank...
...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carre...