Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's only Eastern loss since 1964 came on these courts two years ago. Weather permitting, Barnaby will have his team practicing on the Soldier's Field cement today and tomorrow...
...were terrified at the thought of the next day's funeral procession, when they would have to carry it down again. The officer in charge ordered a coffin from Fort Myer, had it filled with sandbags, and at midnight took his team to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. There, he marched them up and down the darkened steps. Later, the officer and a sentry sat on the lid to increase the weight, while the team made the trip again and again. Next day they had no trouble during the ceremonies...
...years of its existence on European soil, no soldier has ever fired a gun in anger under the command of SHAPE-Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe. SHAPE has never even had to put its troops on general alert. Though its enemies have failed to make it retreat, however, an ally has succeeded. Last week, obeying the wishes of Charles de Gaulle, SHAPE officially left France, ending the saga of NATO on French soil. While the flags of NATO's 15-member nations were lowered and a military band played a Napoleonic march, it bade adieu to its sprawling prefabricated...
Died. Marshal Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky, 68, the Soviet Union's Minister of Defense since 1957; of cancer; in Moscow. Short, grizzled, gruff, Malinovsky looked like the original Russian bear-and played the part to perfection. As a heavy-fisted soldier, he took part in the World War II defense of Stalingrad, commanded the advance through Rumania and Hungary to Vienna, and finally Russia's "one-week war" against Japan. As a Communist, he was the perfect, unquestioning Party member, who survived all purges, obediently reined in the army when Khrushchev opted for fewer guns and more butter, then...
...from the 6,500,000 copies that his first four books sold), but neither ballyhoo nor sales can refute the conclusion that Jones is a one-novel writer. His first book, From Here to Eternity (1951), at least projected a brutally candid image of the professional soldier between wars. Jones wrote it at white wrath out of his own experience in the peacetime army in Hawaii. The wrath is gone now; what remains is spillover Spillane combined with horrid Hemingway...