Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Surrender. On the fatal Saturday, Aman remained inside his concrete bungalow, protected by a loyal detachment of Third Division troops. "I will never give myself up," he had told a relative a few days earlier. "I will die like a soldier." Some time after nightfall, Fourth Division troops under Mengistu's command attacked Aman's house with tanks, armored cars, bazookas and machine guns, and in the ensuing two-hour firefight the general was killed. Foreign observers in Addis Ababa speculated that certain members of the council may then have panicked and ordered the mass executions to take...
Rabin was born in Jerusalem in 1922 to Russian parents (his father had spent 15 years in the U.S. before moving to Palestine during World War I to become a soldier in the Jewish Legion). At the age of 19, Yitzhak joined the elite, secret branch of the Jewish underground, the Palmach. Soon after, he met a high school girl named Leah Schlossberg, whom he married...
...pigeons that normally fly around the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in eccentric circles had disappeared...
...Little Snobbish. This fall Cohen is writing jokes for the casualty's replacement, Professor Scott Fraser, a more polished lecturer. One example, from a talk on "drive reduction" theories: "When they found a Japanese soldier recently who'd been living alone on a desert island for 29 years unaware World War II was over, he was going steady with a coconut tree he called Shirley...
...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, (le Carr?...