Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed overly interested in Sergeant Walters' pretty German wife Maria, an ex-nightclub singer, nobody seemed to mind less most of the time than Sergeant Watters himself. Nobody seemed to mind less, that is, until the night of Nov. 30, 1953. That night Sergeant Emmett-Dunne and another soldier found Sergeant Watters hanging by the neck from a bannister in one of the barracks...
...troubles were not yet over: he had no office. Acting Chief of Staff Zulkifli Lubis, a Kusumasumantri man who has since split with him, refused to budge from his chair. Kusumasumantri fired him and named another Deputy Chief, only to have the replacement decline the honor. With nary a soldier to heed his command, one-handed Chief of Staff Utoyo repaired to a room in the Hotel des Indes, where he could bark orders at bell boys to heart's content...
...hair grow long and talk Punjabi," said the young soldier to Kim, quoting a Northern proverb. "That is all that makes a Sikh. " But he did not say this very loud...
...Painter Ralph Earl and Engraver Amos Doolittle. both believed to have been members of the New Haven Cadets under Captain Benedict Arnold.* Between Copley's departure and Stuart's return in 1793, the best contemporary portraits of the men who led the Revolution were all done by Soldier-Painter Peale...
...making. A clerk breaks a leg running out on the girl he gets into trouble; his father's cast-off shoes hurt a schoolboy's heart much more than his feet; a tottering old watchman asks a Mass for the soul of a soldier he had killed as a youth. Together, such simple and tenderly told stories make a haunting picture of a Dublin not so very different, after 40 years, from the Dublin of Joyce's short stories...