Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Certainly there are many jobs in the Army which require special aptitudes. However, even in this atomic age, most of the jobs held by enlisted men of the lower pay grades do not require a high degree of technical skill. The most important qualities of a soldier are now, and always have been, physical fitness, and a receptiveness for discipline...
...prays that he be restored to life. While a pit chorus explains what is going on, three legendary miracles are enacted at one side of the stage: an Italian Renaissance woman finds her dead child coming back to life, a Scottish lass sees her cow revive, and a German soldier of the Thirty Years' War exchanges his own life for that of his fallen brother. (Each of the episodes is sung in the language of its setting.) Then back to the living room. Tracy yawns, looks up at Laura and asks: "What the hell are you doing on your...
Football's College All-Stars bounced into Chicago's Soldier Field last week with a herd of the swiftest, smartest players in years. Almost all were high on the professional league's draft lists. All were razor-keen after three hard weeks training under old Pro Coach Curley Lambeau. Their high hope: to pass the champion New York Giants silly and wow their new pro employers. Then it began to rain, rain, rain down through the stadium lights, and 75,000 spectators saw the rookies' annual blooding work toward a familiar ending...
...exhibition, which comprised some 2,000 items, ranging from buttons to bureaus. The ladies who put the show together were mostly grandmothers, but they smilingly shifted furniture that would have given a stevedore pause. As each unveiled her best discoveries, the others clustered like birds. A Civil War soldier's shaving kit, with slide-out mirror, was admired for its ingenuity. Six people spread out a patchwork quilt, which some country lady had made from her husband's neckties a century ago, and debated the name of the pattern. Said the oldest hand decisively, "Steps to the White...
...officer. Sophie's new and growing love for Erick is rejected and she crosses class, family and historical lines to go over to the Reds. Presently, Conrad is killed; his sister is captured and sentenced to death as a turncoat. In a scene of cutting irony the White soldier, who usually performs the executions with his pistol, comes to Erick and reports: "She orders . . . that is, Miss Sophie asks . . She wants it to be you." Erick obliges. His first shot blows half her face away. "On the second shot everything was over." With this, Novelist Yourcenar (Hadrian...