Word: soldier
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Harvard's shared history with Ropes and Gray goes back to the firm's first days, shortly after it, was founded after the Civil War. Gray, a soldier fresh out of the Union army, founded the firm with his schoolmate Ropes in 1865. A few years later, President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, turned to Gray for legal advice and inaugurated the Harvard-Ropes and Gray connection...
...body of Aquino was lying face down on the pavement, blood spurting from a large wound in the back of his neck. Another body, dressed in a blue mechanic's uniform, lay face up a few feet away as a soldier pumped 16 rounds into his stomach at close range. Two other soldiers picked up the limp body of Aquino, loaded it into the van and sped away. Aquino was pronounced dead on arrival at Ft. Bonifacio Army Hospital...
...your article on Americans vacationing overseas [July 25], you show a photo of a U.S. tourist kissing a Windsor Castle Guardsman in England. What would happen if I, a British citizen, attempted to kiss your President's Secret Service men? Make no mistake, that "little toy soldier" is a member of the British army and has probably served in Northern Ireland or the Falklands. I do not deny that his dress uniform is a tourist attraction, but a little respect should be shown to the man and his profession...
...some minutes later, to carry two passengers, an injured woman and her six-month-old daughter, to a nearby house. Once inside, the woman died and the contras abruptly left. As the three shaken survivors hurried to report the attack, behind them ten civilians and one Sandinista soldier lay dead...
Nicaraguan officials were quick to claim that the contras had been responsible for similar massacres of civilians in the past. But one of Blandón's friends had a different explanation. According to him, the Sandinista soldier had opened fire as soon as he saw the contras approaching, thereby provoking the savage reprisal...