Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...general impressed me as a forthright and determined man as well as a devoted, and probably pretty able, professional soldier. He could cut an impressive figure as a leader and would not, I thought, be easily turned from his purpose. He asked me, as he put it, to open for him and his colleagues a window on the world. I tried to do so. Could it be that when I threw the window open they looked out-and saw the Falklands...
...this strange succession of happenings, lending the voyage from scene to scene more excitement, more obvious purpose, than the scenes themselves. The latter do seem in fact to concern a a man named Woyzeck (the name rings repetitively through the various modes of address, a ghostly refrain), a soldier, who has been forced to eat nothing but peas for months in the interests of science. Who shaves his Captain's beard daily in return for disjointed grilling on philosophy and morals. Who kills a woman and may, or may not, get caught. Sentences, conversations repeat constantly, occasionally inaudible but more...
...even as Israeli soldiers were bulldozing the remains of Jewish settlements in the Sinai and removing the last defiant occupants, Israel sent its warplanes northward to bomb and strafe some strongholds of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon. That air assault breached a cease-fire along the Israeli-Lebanese border that had been in effect since last July. The Israelis' immediate explanation for the bombings: retaliation for a series of Palestinian truce violations, including the death last week, in a landmine explosion, of an Israeli soldier who had himself been on patrol in Lebanese territory...
...attack by Allen Goodman, an American-born Israeli soldier, on one of the most sacred sites in Islam, the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount, had inflamed Arab passions throughout the Middle East. The incident occurred, moreover, at a time of extreme anxiety in the region. Plagued with doubts about the wisdom of its action, Israel was preparing to withdraw from the final third of the Sinai Peninsula on April 25, while Egypt waited anxiously to see if the Israeli government of Prime Minister Menachem...
...hasty rebound after the UMass debacle should help the laxwomen get ready for two key Ivy League games this week. Brown travels to Soldier's Field tomorrow for a 3 p.m. game, and Cornell comes to town this weekend...