Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...loves life and liberty so much that he has nearly killed and thoroughly enslaved himself a hundred times over in the past six months. Dorothy Thompson calls him "the great life-affirmer." This week Miss Thompson praised him as a man of action--"as soldier, war correspondent and public servant in high places. One sometimes has the feeling that the man has skipped a century, harking back to less pedestrian and comfort-loving times, to older and more tested virtues. He restores to the leadership of Britain the nobleman, in its exact sense of being a man and being noble...
Vaughn was a 21-year-old soldier at Camp Jackson, S.C., who reported for sick call on Sept. 19, 1918, at the peak of the pandemic. He complained of chills, fever, headache and a bad cough. He had trouble breathing. A week later, at 6:30 a.m., he died. At 2 p.m., his body was autopsied, and specimens were extracted, preserved and sent to Washington...
...imagine oneself in some Eastern version of Sleepy Hollow. There was Artur Dmitriev, lifting his new partner Oksana Kazakova to a gold, with a long program of soulful if hardly flawless majesty, and collecting the medal he had won six years before. There was Georg Hackl, the businesslike German soldier, shooting away with the gold in the men's luge, as he had done in Lillehammer and in Albertville. And there was slalom ace Alberto Tomba, saying he wanted to find a girl to settle down with. As the newcomer Kazakova said, after surviving a singled double Axel, "We have...
...century, at least, squash has been an integral part of College life, with eight squash courts integrated into the basement of Dunster House, Harvard's first house (established circa 1930). Many other courts are scattered through the houses, at Linden Street and in the Hemenway Gymnasium. Prior to the Soldier's Field complex, the newest and nicest courts were in the Quad...
Maybe it's Gore's turn for good news. Of late, it seemed, whenever Clinton tripped, it was Gore who stubbed his toe. To make his bones in the Administration, for example, good-soldier Gore worked too hard at fund raising and ended up taking money from Buddhist monks and babbling about controlling legal authority. But tomcattery is one perceived Clintonian trait that hasn't rubbed off on Gore. "Clinton and Gore are friends, but not that kind of friends," says a senior Gore aide. "They're close colleagues who sometimes see each other away from work, but then usually...