Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hours after the operation, General Eisenhower's fighting spirit seemed to be seeing him through. "He is a soldier," said a hospital information officer. "He is used to the discipline of a soldier...
...predictions. As in the past, the former President rallied just as the watching world feared the worst. Though his condition remained serious, he managed to down a portion of gelatine for dessert, which doctors said he "ate with relish." For all this, it was evident that the old soldier was waging the biggest battle of his life...
...countries. If that amounted to recognition of the commandos as an independent force, it also assured them of a more harrowing existence. Hardly had the decision been announced when Israeli ground troops attacked a Jordanian police station suspected of being a jumping-off point for fedayeen raids. One Israeli soldier was wounded in an hour-long battle, which ended after Israel's jets were called in to bomb the Arab positions...
...early years in the Ukraine were spent amid both prosperity and a continual fear of pogroms. At 19, he landed at Jaffa in the aliya, or immigrant wave, of 1914, and hiked across the sandhills to a farming village. As the need arose, he became in turn a farmer, soldier, irrigation expert and labor organizer. In the 1930s, he was sent to Germany to help Jews emigrate to Palestine. In the '40s, he was a member of the high command of the Haganah, responsible for buying and manufacturing arms...
...deserted cathedral. Its cavernous waiting room is almost vacant except for a few stubborn worshippers. Now there are just commuter trains and a couple of runs to new York. Once South Station could have been the setting for any of those postwar movies in which the returning soldier watches June Allison waiting ecstatically for him as he struggles through the crowds, finally to embrace her. The movie was long ago finished; the set was never struck...