Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...line" against Soviet expansionism at El Salvador. Since then, Administration officials have periodically flogged the Red Menace, sometimes with unhappy results. The most notable diplomatic debacle occurred when the Administration promised to produce a Nicaraguan defector who would reveal evidence of outside control of the Salvadoran rebellion; the young soldier dutifully appeared before a group of American reporters and then denied the entire scenario...
Dartmouth women's lacrosse Coach Jo Ann Harper says it'll take an "incredible performance" for her squad--the 1983 women's lacrosse Cinderella story--to wrest the Ivy championship from a far more talented Harvard squad this afternoon at Soldier's Field. If there's any team that's capable, however, it's the storybook squad from Hanover...
...Having spoken to Indonesians on this 'sensitive' subject. I now believe that the Indonesian army would have invaded Timor no matter what we or anyone else said about it, even if each Indonesian soldier had at his disposal no weapon other than his sacred dagger, the 'kris.'" (Atlantic Monthly, June...
Most baseball squads would be satisfied after winning three out of four games. She capturing these of four weekend contests didn't satisfy Harvard, which spilt a twinbill with Columbia yesterday at Soldier Field after sweeping Penn Saturday...
...transformed Eleni's simple life, and bought out in her family a crafty brutality needed for survival. When the guerrillas wanted to take her eldest daughter Olga as a soldier, Eleni seared the girl's foot with boiling water and a glowing poker so that she could not go. A male cousin of Eleni's escaped being drafted by lacerating his neck with nettles and painting his throat every morning with diluted hydrochloric acid...