Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israeli forces in Lebanon since the Marines landed five months ago, with French and Italian troops, as part of an international peace-keeping effort. Indeed, the entire three-nation force seemed under siege last week. A grenade was tossed into a French military vehicle in West Beirut, wounding one soldier. Several French soldiers out jogging were sprayed by automatic weapons fire; two were wounded, one seriously. In one of the worst incidents of violence in West Beirut in recent months, a car bomb blew up outside the Palestine Research Center and the temporary Libyan embassy, turning both buildings into infernos...
...course, I said. What else is a great poet! A man who knows the world." In his long and tremendously varied life (he died last spring just short of his ninetieth birthday) MacLeish knew as much of the world as anyone. He was a lawyer, soldier, outspoken journalist, and Harvard professor, a public servant whose posts included Librarian of Congress and Assistant Secretary of State, an advisor to Adlai Stevenson and F.D.R., and above all a playwright and a poet...
Breen added that it was the first fire in a House requiring such an investigation in five or six years. The last major fire at Harvard took place in April 1981, when the Soldier's Field press box burned down...
...more were wounded. Only I and one other man were not hurt or killed. The regional chief of staff and his escort staff ran when the fighting started. When he decided to leave, he defended this by saying that he could not afford to die like any ordinary soldier...
...good conscience and concentrate on the comparatively serene work of general managing. "Hard, executive work," he allows, "with long hours here and there, and a certain amount of travel. But no experiences like San Diego." Should he be unable to find or convince the right man, he will soldier on a while...