Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...series opener is 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier,' in which the Tin Soldier (Viktor Plotnikov) pursues a Paper Ballerina (Larissa Ponomarenko) as a Jack-in-the-Box (Yuri Yanowski) tries to thwart their budding love by throwing the Tin Soldier out the window...
...final ballet, the world premiere of 'The Princess and the Pea,' has the same festive yet unremarkable quality of 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier'. It saved from absolute mediocrity only by a troop of adorable dancing mattresses and one hilarious performance...
...terror lasted for two hours. As the engine of the bus started, women began wailing, throwing themselves at the window, but there was nothing they could do. When the bus stopped again, Ogresevic and her son got out. A soldier immediately grabbed him and put a knife to his throat. "He wanted 1,000 deutsche marks [$700] not to kill my son or rape my daughter. I had no choice. I had to pay," Ogresevic said. The soldier told her to march along a small track. She saw the bodies of two Muslim women. One lay facedown...
...majority of entries are the clever coinages of military folk, who seem over the ages to have had little more to do than embroider their vocabulary with ever newer inventions. Ask any soldier to count the entries, and he will say there are three hundred and sixty-f---ing-five of them. Were it not for our brave fighting men, this book would be a booklet...
...parts of the West Bank. Despite pledges of peace and brotherhood signed last month in Washington, the transfer of power in several towns was terse and businesslike at best. A banner in Arabic that stretched across one town's city hall read TODAY SALFIT, TOMORROW JERUSALEM. Scoffed an Israeli soldier: "Wishful thinking...