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Word: soldier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government was established in 1932. Rebel army units took key buildings in Bangkok last week, sacked the government and installed their own man, General San Chitpatima, 59, the army's deputy commander. Coup tradition dictated that the incumbent, Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanond, 61, step aside for the new soldier-statesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand: Fast Fizzle for Coup No. 14 | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

Since taking office 13 months ago, Prem has been plagued by factionalism and cor ruption within his fragile coalition government. The result has been administrative paralysis, despite mounting inflation and commodity shortages. Though Prem has done little to stop the rot, he retains a reputation as a good soldier whose personal integrity is unquestioned. The army's young Turks, most of them 1960 graduates of the Thai Military Academy who formed the nucleus of a so-called Revolutionary Party, apparently hoped to capitalize on that image while offering Prem a fresh start. He refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand: Fast Fizzle for Coup No. 14 | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...earth, water and sky. The land leans gracefully toward the horizon to embrace Camelot, a fairy castle in Eden. The sword that will give Arthur his power rises suddenly, majestically, from a mercurial, brooding lake; a 300-ft.-high waterfall murmurs like silk in a soft wind; a soldier's lifeblood and the mud he died in become one. It is the morning of a new age-Christianity come to Britain -but Arthur and Mordred, his son born of an incestuous dream, meet their destiny in a crimson twilight of the gods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Glorious Camp of Camelot | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...should prove a more formidable opponent than Springfield because the laxwomen will look to avenge last year's 7-1 drubbing in Kingston, when the Rams come to Soldier's Field...

Author: By John Beilenson, | Title: Laxwomen Pummel Springfield, 22-2; Den Hartog Stars, Ties Scoring Mark | 4/8/1981 | See Source »

Women's Softball vs. Brandeis 11:00 a.m. at Soldier's Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 4/4/1981 | See Source »

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