Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alferd E. Packer, an ex-Union soldier was sentenced to 40 years in the state penitentiary after having been convicted for killing and eating his five companions during an 1874 snowstorm in Colorado; the group had been searching for gold fields...
...unlike most wealthy alumni, he decided against writing his own name into posterity. The bridge was instead officially named the "Anderson bridge" for "a scholar and a soldier." Nicholas Long worth Anderson, Class of 1858. Larz's father served as a general for the Northern states in the Civil War, according to a bronze plaque embedded in the stone bridge, completed...
...assumption to anticipation of a bloody massacre." Sharon also contended, "On the subject of vengeance as I know it among the Arabs," revenge was not ordinarily directed toward "children, women and old people, nor toward entire populations, or hundreds of people." Later he told the panel that no Israeli soldier or commander "imagined in his worst dream the terrible scenes that were revealed to us in Sabra and Shatila . . . We were surprised, astounded and shocked by the massacre that took place...
...then the ordeal of Shatila was over. The camps now were quiet, except for the mourning of those who had discovered the bodies of their relatives among the dead. The first Lebanese Army soldiers, handkerchiefs over their mouths, entered Shatila to see what had gone on. One soldier looked up an alleyway where many bodies lay and ran back, vomiting...
...players huddled to plot union "allstar games," the first conceivably to be telecast Oct. 10 by Ted Turner. The owners huddled to try to thwart that and to consider retooling with renegades and scabs (though a few coaches, like Philadelphia's Dick Vermeil, said they were disinclined to soldier on in the company of the French Foreign Legion). As usual, the first problem was getting both sides into the same huddle...