Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even though the squad began practicing way back in early February, last Saturday's home opener against Princeton marked the first time the Crimson had set foot on its home turf at Soldier's Field...
...Chile, the Pope calls for human rights. -- Guerrillas attack the Salvadoran army and kill a U. S. soldier. -- Thatcher in Moscow...
Whitehead's employment was the opposite of Jane Eyre's in that she was engaged not to nurture a growing child but simply to produce the entity so that her employer might enjoy the nurturing. Curiously, her work was not unlike a substitute soldier's, since it involved a potential risk of life for pay and provided a service to enhance a collective (a family instead of a country) of which she could not feel a part. Purely in terms of fair labor practices, her provision of nearly a year's work for $10,000 raises an issue of equity...
...were Cezanne, Matisse and Gaugin, Fry and Bell preferred any imitation of the Ecole de Paris, however pallid, to anything else, however strong. They both disliked vorticism, the remarkable English movement that combined elements of cubism, futurism and Dada and centered on the belligerent genius of Wyndham Lewis, painter, soldier, novelist, critic and editor of Blast. Bell in 1917 sneered at the "new spirit in the little backwater, called English vorticism, which already gives signs of being as insipid as any other puddle of provincialism," and thereafter the Bloomsberries rarely missed a chance to put Lewis down...
...make things worse, instead of the spicy language that real warriors use, the script forces them to blurt lines like, "I was as dumbfounded as you." Dumbfounded. I've never even heard even Archie Epps use that word in conversation--let alone a combat soldier...